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

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

Randi Kreger, Paul T. Mason

3.83 AVERAGE

no_goodreads's review against another edition

5.0

You may have learned how to cope with the BP in your life but this book will hopefully give you a better insight and expand your options.

smilinmimi's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

introvertisa's review

2.75

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

entendo as críticas negativas pontuando os estigmas retratados no livro. os exemplos de casos retratados são, em sua maioria, chocantes e graves, acho que para ilustrar os piores cenários possíveis e auxiliar pessoas envoltas nesses contextos mais graves. quanto as dicas, é aquilo, aproveitamos o que faz sentido e o que não, ignoramos

mtzlftz's review against another edition

4.0

informative medium-paced

currents_convulsive's review against another edition

5.0

It's good for distancing yourself from SHITTY people (who HAPPEN TO have bpd/who use their mental health disorders as a SHIELD). However, there's a lot of stigmatizing language in it. People with bpd are deserving of respect. People with bpd aren't inherently cruel or evil.

If you justify someone's crappiness by saying "oh, they have bpd, they can't help it" or "they love me, they didn't mean to do x hurtful thing they were just angry'... This book might give perspective. But it's NOT a representation of everyone with bpd. My relationship with this book is incredibly complicated, and I'm nkt going to act like it's some sort of holy grail, nor am I going to act like it's the worst thing I've ever read (because it prompted me to make a change in my life that has improved my life)

Maybe I'm rambling. But I have a lot of thoughts and a lot of emotions associated with this book, and they're coming out all jumbled.

Edit:

You know what? Fuck that.

After an incident two nights ago I started re reading this. This book hits the nail on the head about the girl i knew. NOTHING anyone can say about this can discount the way this book is sticking with me. Every little nuance is captured here. How to deal with things. Asking why i always fall back into the same toxic patterns. Figuring out why I became so damn codependent with that horrible girl.

I'm sorry. I can't find it in myself to care about the larger effects when this book is actively changing my life for the better. Actively getting me to leave someone who's been making me miserable for over a decade and threatening suicide when I do anything.

I need this book.

aed4n92's review against another edition

3.5

challenging emotional informative fast-paced

redreadinghood4789's review against another edition

2.0

The book had my attention until the author felt that diagnose of abusers to be more important than the issue of domestic violence in murder suicides...

circe_aeaea's review against another edition

4.0

Good book. Take the authors suggestion and read it in bite size chunks. The book gives some strong ideas on how to handle individuals found in all facets of your life. I could see this helping people who work in a field where interactions with the "public" are the norm.

prettygirlpaperwhite's review against another edition

3.0

informative medium-paced

I know someone with BPD so it's very interesting to me but I found the message to be very repetitive. Now I want to read the more famous book about BPD-"I Hate You, Don't Leave Me."

mothstrand's review against another edition

2.75

challenging informative slow-paced

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