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  • 5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life

  • Identifying and Dealing with Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Other High-Conflict Personalities
  • By: Bill Eddy
  • Narrated by: Tom Parks
  • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (440 ratings)

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5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life

By: Bill Eddy
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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.

©2018 Bill Eddy (P)2018 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

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Very well written

Well written and informative. I enjoyed this book very much. Recommend to give this a listen!

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Vital

Hopefully you listen to this before you need it. I wish I had this information sooner.

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Eye Opening

This gave me deep insight to exactly what type of personality and that there were more than one, how to identify it and how to deal with it. it feels so amazing to know I'm not the one that's crazy and that all the things I thought my boyfriend of 11 years was doing intentionally.... WAS!

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Protect yourselves

A good source of information to learn which to avoid inviting into your life and leading you to ruin

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Well worth reading!

if you are in a relationship with a high conflict person this will give you an outline and some clear understanding to identify the behaviors and why you are feeling as you do

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Great Information

Very helpful in understanding personality disorders and how to recognize and deal with them. Everyone should read this book!

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UNHEALTHY RELATIONSHIP HELP

If you are stuck a true unhealthy relationship or abusive. listen to the book to deal with it or avoid it later.

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A Magnificent tome on an obscure, relevant topic

Eddy uses plain language to deconstruct complex constructs to make them useful and practical. The
High-Conflict Personality is on encountered by everyone at so point or another. This book contain universally important insights in
identifying, & coping w difficult people.

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Thorough analysis written for normal people

This book involves heavy subjective science. This author had to make lots of difficult decisions about what to include, what not to include, and how to word those things. The author, moreover, did a fantastic job with this challenging enterprise. I may direct your attention to the chapter on borderline personality disorder, where there was a dedicated segment about compassion; owing to the fact that these very individuals are unable to control both the cause and continuation of the disease. There are endless examples of this, and that’s the very reason why I wrote this glowing review. Very honest work. This book is very useful for understanding those around me, and using solid methods for dealing with friends and family members I care about a lot. For these reasons, and many others, I highly recommend reading this book.

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Awesome!

When I first saw this title, I thought it was just another pop-psychology book, but the content was very informative. The author certainly has a profound understanding about the nature of high-conflict personalities. He also goes into great detail discussing the possible evolutionary advantages to such traits which is interesting because most books in this field paint a black and white narrative about this subject matter.

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