Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder

Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder

by Paul T. T. Mason MS, Randi Kreger
Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder

Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder

by Paul T. T. Mason MS, Randi Kreger

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Overview

Isn’t it time you stopped walking on eggshells? Learn how with this fully revised and updated third edition of a self-help classic—now with more than one million copies sold!

Do you feel manipulated, controlled, or lied to? Are you the focus of intense, violent, and irrational rages? Do you feel you are ‘walking on eggshells’ to avoid the next confrontation? If the answer is ‘yes,’ someone you care about may have borderline personality disorder (BPD)—a mood disorder that causes negative self-image, emotional instability, and difficulty with interpersonal relationships.

Stop Walking on Eggshells has already helped more than a million people with friends and family members suffering from BPD understand this difficult disorder, set boundaries, and help their loved ones stop relying on dangerous BPD behaviors. This fully revised third edition has been updated with the very latest BPD research on comorbidity, extensive new information about narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), the effectiveness of schema therapy, and coping and communication skills you can use to stabilize your relationship with the BPD or NPD sufferer in your life.

This compassionate guide will enable you to:

  • Make sense out of the chaos
  • Stand up for yourself and assert your needs
  • Defuse arguments and conflicts
  • Protect yourself and others from violent behavior 

If you’re ready to bring peace and stability back into your life, this time-tested guide will show you how, one confident step at a time. 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781684036899
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Publication date: 12/01/2020
Edition description: Third Edition
Pages: 280
Sales rank: 14,163
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Paul T. Mason, MS, is a seasoned health care executive currently serving as vice president of Ascension Medical Group in Wisconsin. His research on borderline personality disorder (BPD) has been published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology, and his written work has appeared in national and international print media.


Randi Kreger is author of The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook and The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder. Her website, www.stopwalkingoneggshells.com, offers material related to borderline personality disorder (BPD). She also provides a free online family support group, Moving Forward, at www.groups.io/g/movingforward. She gives workshops throughout the US and Japan.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vi

Introduction to the Third Edition 1

Part 1 Understanding BPD Behavior

Chapter 1 Does Someone You Care About Have Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorder? 7

Chapter 2 What Is Borderline Personality Disorder? 25

Chapter 3 Making Sense of the Narcissist 47

Chapter 4 Living in a Pressure Cooker: How BPD Behavior Affects You. … 63

Part 2 Taking Back Control of Your Life

Chapter 5 Making Changes Within Yourself 79

Chapter 6 Understanding Your Situation: Setting Boundaries and Honing Skills 103

Chapter 7 Asserting Your Needs with Confidence and Clarity 131

Chapter 8 Creating a Safety Plan 155

Chapter 9 Protecting Children from BPD Behavior 173

Part 3 Resolving Special Issues

Chapter 10 Waiting for the Next Shoe to Drop: Your Borderline Child 195

Chapter 11 Lies, Rumors, and Accusations: Distortion Campaigns 213

Chapter 12 What Now? Making Decisions About Your Relationship 225

Appendix A Causes and Treatment of BPD 237

Appendix B Practicing Mindfulness 243

Appendix C Resources 247

Appendix D Are You Being Abused? 257

References 263

Interviews

Kreger resides in Wauwatosa, WI; Mason resides in Minneapolis, MN.
 

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