5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life: Identifying and Dealing with Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Other High-Conflict Personalities Paperback – February 6, 2018

Seriously. Just do yourself a favor and read this book. It will help you pick up on behaviors that can save you endless time and energy dealing with toxic people and people who could potentially ruin your life. It also has wonderful tips on how to deal with the different personality types in unavoidable situations. There’s probably no book I recommend more in my day to day life than this one.

I read another review that said people seek information about this topic after they have been burned. That is true for me and the results were catastrophic. Advice from the book is to not confront the difficult person but placate them because to confront them may feel good in the moment but in fact you have become targeted for bullying and destruction and things get so much, dangerously, worse. I find an entire roadmap in this book of what just happened to me and it is helpful after the fact to help make some sense of the devastation and loss. I only wish I had known sooner so this pain could have been avoided. This book is easy to read and gets to the point. My thanks to the author.

I really like the practical format of this book, but I don’t think it’s possible to say that someone who had repeated bouts of bad luck with employment has automatically a HCP (high conflict personality). I think toxic working environments are more common than the good ones so asking around for proof of “problem personality” can be simply an exercise in confirmation bias. Sometimes you don’t know what environment you are walking into and the motivations behind your hire. In one of my jobs the plan was to pit me against a person they wanted to manage out. But things worked the other way around/ I left instead. Now my former colleague will happily say something negative about me, but if the person inquiring is the author then he may conclude I’m an HCP too!

This book was fabulous, absolutely magnificent. Not only did it demonstrate how to identify high conflict personalities amongst you, it gives you detailed information on how to deal with each type/subtype. Not everyone in the world is straight up and honest, there are people who are dramatic and live to watch people squirm. This excellent book covers all those who want to watch the world burn. Highly recommend, especially for work.

This is an amazing book on handling narcissists and other high conflict personalities. This is a definite read if you've been in that situation.

This small book explains in detail how to handle very toxic people. Most books describe difficult people, this book also give really good examples on how to politely slip away from them at any gathering.

Although it had some good information, it was not worth $14 for the Kindle edition. It was a really short book.

This book should be required reading for anyone who interacts with other humans.My husband and I wanted to read this book to help us better understand an ugly divorce between loved ones, which it very much has, but it has also shed light on a few other relationships with difficult people we’ve known over the years. Lots of “aha” moments while reading this book!Eddy provides insight into the psychology of personality disorders while also offering practical methods for avoiding conflict with them.Had we read this book 20 years ago, it would have saved us years of angst in dealing with a family member whose personality disorder/high-conflict personality has caused much drama in our extended family. We might have been better equipped to diffuse conflicts with this person and interact in a way that maintained a relationship while preserving healthier boundaries.We will encourage our children to read this when they are older to help them recognize signs of HCPs, know how to deal with them when they have to, and avoid the misery that accompanies getting pulled into close relationships with these types of people.