• 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 (393 ratings)

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5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life

By: Bill Eddy
Narrated by: Tom Parks
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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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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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Great advice and funny!

This was a great book that had fun stories along with giving great advise. I have listened to it several times. I have several of these types people in my life and I appreciate different angles in how to deal with them or disappear from their lives!

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Great insight into the human personality disorder.

I enjoyed the information it was very interesting. It was almost Scary to read because of the fact that it underlines the difference between people and their personalities. I unfortunately and yet inevitably already knew to some extent I had narcissistic traits. fortunately this read should give me the knowledge to stop and think about my actions before following through with a poor unbalanced decision. I feel the correlation between the nature/nurture and what your born with play a big role into your personality. Another therapist I study, notes attachment theory as a premise as to why we do what we do as adults. That we develop these attachments as young as 1 year old and in many cases have literally no control over it. I'm hopeful that through gaining knowledge of mental health that I can re-wire myself into my best possible self. Big thanks to Bill and Tom. I'll be checking out your other books.

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Spot on.

Brilliant book. One I wish I had read years ago, before I became single and entered the world of dating. The info presented in this book could have spared me a lot of unwanted conflict.

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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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Excellent book

Ignore the negative reviews. The narration was excellent and the writing very well done.
His examples were very useful. You can see the author has years of experience. He shares it well

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