Amazon.com: Psychopath Free (Expanded Edition): Recovering from Emotionally Abusive Relationships With Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Other Toxic People: 9780425279991: MacKenzie, Jackson: Books

I received this book yesterday afternoon and started reading it until I reached the end. I literally could not put the book down and felt I was reading my own words. The author is obviously highly empathic and intuitive. With my own background in Criminal Law and Psychology, one can never prepare themselves when they are blindsided by these individuals. For me narcissists, sociopaths, psychopaths are all the same people. They have no conscience, empathy or compassion and blame everyone else for anything that goes wrong. This book will help people to notice the signs before becoming involved with someone like this in any kind of relationship. I particularly like the "salad bowl" reference as it really resonated with me....especially looking all the way back to when we were dating.The Author, Peace is obviously speaking from their own once shattered heart and into recovering. I have read many books after being married to one for 28 years and fighting cancer at the same time with no money. He has moved on but left me 2 years ago in run down house, etc. 32 years drained by this emotional vampire that refuses to give me a divorce and has moved on with his life. Psychopath Free touched my heart as it was like reading my own story. For me, the people that write from experience are far more credible than the ones that have degrees with no experience with these toxic people. One could never understand unless they have been through it.I highly recommend this book as it isn't full of clinical terms we are already familiar with. It is a heartwarming hopeful guide to overcoming the damage that was done to us survivors. I love the honesty and heart of the writer and will be joining the website as well. It really does help to know that you are not alone and us survivors will always be connected in a unique way. I agree there is a silver lining to having been with this type of person and it is a life lesson that is unmatched by any other.Please do yourself a favor and pick up this book if you are struggling with any relationship with one of these kinds of people. My son is now reading it because it is his father that walked away and it will help him as well!My sincerest thanks to Peace for writing this for other survivors and for having a safe place to go. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

WOW! I don't know from where to start. I am shaken by this book. My tears can't stop coming down my cheeks. One second you'd be in your bed dreaming, and another second you wake up, open your eyes, to realize that it was only a dream. That's how I felt with every word I read in this book. What mesmerized me the most, other than finding all the truths about the psychopath I was with, is the ability for the author which I truly thank and respect from the bottom of my heart, to be able to not only get into the core of a psychopath(in relationships), but to also write about it in a very well written, and organized way as if they were there with me, to witness the psychopath do what they do best. I lived every word in this book. Every word that's been said happened with me. Everything said about what a psychopath does, is everything they did to me. Everything in this book confirmed my doubts, and explained the sleepless nights, the pain, the tears, the heaviness in my lungs with every breath I took, the feeling of something is stuck down my throat, the knife feelings I used to feel in my heart and soul, and the amount of anxiety that I'd feel in my veins. All caused by a psychopath that had no mercy.I never wanted to believe that I'm being lied to, by the purest person in the word. I ignored all the voices in my head, I ignored my instincts, my intuitions. I was brainwashed, gaslighted, manipulated, and played with. And I wonder, what else in this world that happen to us all the time, throughout our everyday lives, that we really have no acknowledgment of. But only if you did. Only if there was a book for every problem we encounter in our lives, how many truths will we find. How many eye openings will we have. This book just goes to show, that no matter what we face in life, no matter how much pain and blindness they might cause us, there will always be a reason why it happened, a cause, and a solution. The truth will reveal itself only if you search for it, only if we look for answers. As with my previous psychopathic relationship, I would of never imagined in a million years that I would be able to come close to figure what just happened to me, no matter what the world have to offer me in terms of any kind of help. That's what I thought. But this book, came with all the answers I hoped one day to get to. I'm truly thankful, and blessed to have read such a book. With all what I've learned and discovered, this will stay with me forever. Even if you have never been in a relationship with a psychopath, this book will give you an eye opening on what you'd expect from one. Do yourself a favor and read this book. Protect yourself. Although sometimes finding the truth is harsh and overwhelming, but it's worth it. Always read about what interests you, about problems you face, about the field your in. You'll have all the knowledge in the world, to get to most if not all the answers and truths you have been searching for.If you every meet a psychopath, just turn around and run as fast as you can, and never look back. Do not try to fix them, or try to help, they will never change! Ever! No matter what! Always go with your gut feelings! Have faith and trust in you're instincts, and intuitions!