Stop Walking on Eggshells

Author: Paul T. T. Mason
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
ISBN: 1684036917
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
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.

Stop Walking on Eggshells

Author: Paul T. Mason
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
ISBN: 1572246901
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
Discusses the signs and symptoms of borderline personality disorder and explains how the families and friends of patients can cope with BPD behavior while taking care of themselves.

Walking on Eggshells

Author: Jane Isay
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0767920856
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
The perfect gift for both parents and their adult children—”a wonderfully wise and constructive intergenerational guide” that will keep you connected to the people you love most. “Read it and learn.”—New York Times bestselling author Judith Viorst We raise our children to be independent and lead fulfilling lives, but when they finally do, staying close becomes more complicated than ever. And for every bewildered mother who wonders why her children don’t call, there is a frustrated son or daughter who just wants to be treated like a grownup. Now, renowned author and editor Jane Isay delivers real-life wisdom and advice on how to stay together without falling apart. Using extensive interviews with people from ages twenty-five to seventy, Isay shows that we’re far from alone in our struggles to make this new, adult relationship work. She offers up groundbreaking insights and deeply moving stories that will inspire those in even the toughest situations. Isay’s warmth and wit shine through on every page as she charts an invaluable course through the confusing, and often painful, interactions parents and children can face. Walking on Eggshells is the much-needed road map that will keep you connected to the people you love most.

Walking on Eggshells

Author: Lyssa Chapman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451696159
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
An empowering memoir that can inspire others to break the cycle of abuse and forge happiness out of extreme adversity. The ninth child of bounty hunter Duane Chapman, made famous on the A&E show Dog the Bounty Hunter, Lyssa Chapman has overcome an upbringing that can only be called tragic. In her piercing memoir, she shares the details of her harrowing childhood and her journey to faith, and offers compassionate guidance, advice, and hope to those who might feel overwhelmed in their own circumstances. As a child, Baby Lyssa’s parents divorced and left her neglected. Things only got worse from there. Walking on Eggshells reveals Lyssa’s nightmare passage from mental and physical abuse to removal from school and confinement at home, flight from protective services, and teen pregnancy. Despite it all, and against incredible odds, Lyssa found her faith. She also found her way out of the spiral of bad decisions to build a healthy relationship with her parents and forge a rewarding, positive life with God. An astonishing true story of one young woman’s trek from poverty and abuse to fulfillment and stardom, Walking on Eggshells is heartrending, powerful, and inspiring.

The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook

Author: Randi Kreger
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
ISBN: 1608824292
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
The symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD) include severe mood shifts, unfounded accusations and wildly inappropriate displays of anger, a range of self-destructive behaviors, and frantic efforts to avoid abandonment. For the friends and families of people with BPD, The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook supports and reinforces the ideas in its partner book Stop Walking on Eggshells. The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook can be used by itself, or as an accompaniment to the first book. A practical guide to successfully navigating life with someone with BPD, it’s chock full of worksheets, checklists, and exercises to help them apply what they’ve learned to their own relationship. It includes a form to help to fill in when looking for a clinician, a list of phrases to use, and a glossary of BPD-related terms. The book is easy to read and right to the point.

Stop Walking on Eggshells for Parents

Author: Randi Kreger
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
ISBN: 1684038596
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
"A valuable, practical resource for parents and caregivers of children, from age five through adulthood, who exhibit signs of, or have been diagnosed with, borderline personality disorder (BPD)."—Booklist Based on the self-help classic, Stop Walking on Eggshells, this essential guide offers powerful skills and strategies for parenting a child of any age with borderline personality disorder (BPD)—without sacrificing their family or themselves. If you have a child with BPD, you are all-too-aware of the behavioral and emotional issues that are linked to this disorder—including rages, self-harm, sexual acting out, substance abuse, suicidal behaviors, physical and emotional attacks, and more. Traditional parenting strategies that work on other kids just don’t work with a borderline child. But you shouldn’t lose hope. The good news is that there are parenting strategies that do work. With this comprehensive resource, you will learn all about borderline personality disorder, how it shows up in children, adolescents, and your adult children, how to obtain proper treatment, and how to manage your child’s condition at home. You’ll find proven-effective strategies to help you communicate and improve your relationship with your child of any age, and, as a result, improve your own life as a parent and an individual. You’ll also find real stories and advice from parents who have also experienced raising a child with BPD. Most importantly, you’ll learn how to maintain boundaries and validate your child while also meeting your own needs. Whether your child is 5 or 25, this book offers tools to help you and your family thrive.

Eggshells

Author: Caitriona Lally
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612195989
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Irish Book of the Year Finalist An Amazon “Best Books of the Year So Far” An Irish Times Book Club Selection An eccentric young woman searches for friendship, understanding, and belonging as she roams Dublin in this “wildly funny” debut from an exciting voice in Irish literature (New York Times Book Review) Vivian doesn't feel like she fits in—and never has. As a child, she was so whimsical that her parents told her she was “left by fairies.” Now, living alone in Dublin, she finds herself without a friend in the world. So, she decides it’s time to change her life: She begins by advertising for a friend. Not just any friend. She wants one named Penelope. Meanwhile, Vivian roams the city, mapping out a new neighborhood every day, seeking her escape route to a better world, the other world her parents told her she came from. And then one day someone named Penelope answers her ad for a friend. And from that moment on, Vivian's life begins to change. Debut author Caitriona Lally offers readers an exhilaratingly fresh take on the Irish love for lyricism, humor, and inventive wordplay in a book that is, in itself, deeply charming, and deeply moving.

The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder

Author: Randi Kreger
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1592857833
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 331

Book Description
Gentle counsel and realistic advice for families contending with one of today's most misunderstood forms of mental illness. For family members of people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), home life is routinely unpredictable and frequently unbearable. Extreme mood swings, impulsive behaviors, unfair blaming and criticism, and suicidal tendencies--common conduct among those who suffer from the disorder--leave family members feeling confused, hurt, and helpless. In Stop Walking on Eggshells, Randi Kreger's pioneering first book which sold more than 340,000 copies, she and co-author Paul T. Mason outlined the fundamental differences in the way that people with BPD relate to the world. Now, with The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder, Kreger takes readers to the next level by offering them five straightforward tools to organize their thinking, learn specific skills, and focus on what they need to do to get off the emotional rollercoaster: (1) Take care of yourself; (2) Uncover what keeps you feeling stuck; (3) Communicate to be heard; (4) Set limits with love; and (5) Reinforce the right behaviors. Together the steps provide a clear-cut system designed to help friends and family reduce stress, improve their relationship with their borderline loved one, improve their problem-solving skills and minimize conflict, and feel more self-assured about setting limits.

Man Walking on Eggshells

Author: Herbert Simmons
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393316186
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
Based on the life of Miles Davis, this is the story of Raymond Douglas who "overcomes obstacles of family and race to become a jazz trumpeter whose music touches greatness."--Cover.

No More Walking on Eggshells

Author: I. Madison
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781519414762
Category : Borderline personality disorder
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
NO MORE WALKING ON EGGSHELLS, A Practical Guide To Understanding, Coping And Living With Someone Who Has Borderline Personality Disorder Or Narcissistic Personality Disorder *****3rd Edition***** This book is a well-rounded introduction to the complications presented by the mental disorders of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). It paints a clear picture of who a narcissist is and who a person with BPD is. You get to learn from this book that narcissism has variations and that each category of narcissists needs to be handled in a unique manner for normalcy or the semblance of it to prevail in life. One thing that this book brings out clearly is the fact that despite the fact that life is difficult with a narcissist around, the same narcissist can contribute positively in a community if the environment is right, and if people around them understand what to expect of a narcissist. That makes this book all the more valuable because it outlines clearly how to handle each type of narcissist for you to get the best out of them and to keep them from making the social or working environment toxic. Any time you want to write off a narcissist, read through this book again and get to see where you can place that person as far as categories of narcissism are concerned. Then see what the book says about handling such people. You may be surprised that some steps you may pick from this book can be the solution nobody ever suggested to you before. And hence the person you loathed begins to make fruitful contributions to your group or community, and incidences of friction between the narcissist and other people begin to reduce. In this book, you will learn: What Narcissistic Personality Disorder is What Borderline Personality Disorder is How NPD varies from BPD The red signs that will alert you when you are dating a narcissist The red signs that will alert you when an employee is a narcissist How narcissism affects leadership in religious circles The best way to handle a partner who is narcissistic What to do to stop falling victim to narcissistic manipulation How to behave when living with a person with BPD How to bring happiness into your life despite having a narcissist in it Various positive contributions you can derive from a narcissist How to keep a narcissist in check while keeping your cool And much, much more.. So don't delay and get your copy today