Understanding Personality Disorders : An Introduction

Personality disordered people are not uncommon in our neighborhoods, workplaces, schools, or even our homes.

They include people who are persistently paranoid, obsessive-compulsive, antisocial, or overly dependent.

Most do not understand the emotional hardship these individuals create for themselves and family, friends, or associates.

This book is a guide for personality disordered men and women and those who live or work around them.

It illustrates personality disorder warning signs that can be missed, and walks us through common scenarios of personality disordered people, explaining how such maladies might develop and how they can successfully be addressed.

The goal is to empower people to identify personality disorders, to do what can be done to ease the disorder and, if that effort fails, to extract themselves from relationships to protect their own emotional well-being.