5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life

Identifying and Dealing with Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Other High-Conflict Personalities

De: Bill Eddy LCSW Esq.

Narrado por: Tom Parks

Some difficult people aren’t just hard to deal with—they’re dangerous.

Do you know someone whose moods swing wildly? Do they act unreasonably suspicious or antagonistic? Do they blame others for their own problems?

When a high-conflict person has one of five common personality disorders—borderline, narcissistic, paranoid, antisocial, or histrionic—they can lash out in risky extremes of emotion and aggression. And once an HCP decides to target you, they’re hard to shake.

But there are ways to protect yourself. Using empathy-driven conflict management techniques, Bill Eddy, a lawyer and therapist with extensive mediation experience, will teach you to:

• Spot warning signs of the five high-conflict personalities in others and in yourself.

• Manage relationships with HCPs at work and in your private life.

• Safely avoid or end dangerous and stressful interactions with HCPs.

Filled with expert advice and real-life anecdotes, 5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life is an essential guide to helping you escape negative relationships, build healthy connections, and safeguard your reputation and personal life in the process. And if you have a high-conflict personality, this book will help you help yourself.

“[This] brilliant book on high-conflict personalities saves us from trusting the wrong people and making the worst relationship mistakes at work, at home, and in our lives. You need this information today!”—Randi Kreger, bestselling author of Stop Walking on Eggshells and The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder

©2018 Bill Eddy (P)2025 Recorded Books

Super helpful

This audiobook is helping me identify high conflict people in my life, how to work/deal with them, when to back off and get space and how if necessary. Also, that I need to reflect on my own behavior and work on myself as well

Stay Away from these people

I enjoyed listening to this book and found it well organized. The authors approach is balanced, intelligent, and wise. I wish I knew the information in this book sooner.

Very Helpful for people with Mental Health disorders

Very thoughtful and thorough. Was very helpful for me dealing with someone I know with Borderline Personality Disorder.

Everyone should read/listen

This book offers real pragmatic life advice that is incredibly valuable. Author distills advice that will save you from stress, money, and despair over people that don’t act rationally. Read it and share it.

excellent Information. i wished it was longer.

just wishes it was longer. more about effects of HCP and how they hurt people. the 5 hour brevity maybe a welcome length for most people. content is condensed.

Heard Huberman refer to this

I went out to get this book after I heard Andrew Huberman mention it during an interview. I found listening to a recently traumatic because I have been dealing with several HCPs in my life. At least now that I have been through this book, I am unlikely to repeat the mistakes that i have made in the past wouldn’t dealing with these types of people. Very appreciative of the author’s work here.

Very informative

This book is so interesting and informative, I’m really glad I got it. I didn’t know how much I needed to know about this subject

Must Read!

Awesome book! A must read. Explains so much about all the difficult people in life.

Must read

So many insights. My eyes are now wide open to HCPs!! Thank you for writing this book and helping so many navigate challenges!!

If your work entails human interactions it is a must read

I just finished the book, a couple considerations about me: before jumping to my evaluation: I am a 1- EASL 2- unfamiliar with western culture who 3- works in an environment that requires enormous human interactions I also do 4- have ADHD and not good social skills :)

That being said this book was great! 1- it was easy to read/listen considering my language skills and ADHD 2- the author emphasized on highly realistic situations and gave accordingly practical solutions 3 a my personal favorite was the mnemonics he suggested