kayla: If you struggle with unwanted intrusive thoughts this book is incredibly helpful on the path to recovery. The book gave digestible tangible information that helps readers navigate these thoughts and ultimately disempower them. 10/10
Canada on Jan 14, 2024
Anonymous: I'm only half-way through this, and it has completely changed my thinking. My intrusieve thoughts have about 90% gone away already - this book saved me after a really stressful time. Saving me a bunch of money on therapy! Highly recommend
United Kingdom on Dec 20, 2023
Weston & Brittany Greene: I will keep this as a night-stand book to refer back to regularly until the habits are natural. Explains, in-detail, why your attempts at stopping the thoughts keep failing. Shares different information than I've never received from a therapist (even CBT-trained therapist). As a Christian, I am cautious with psychology books; sometimes they take a purely humanist perspective (denying any spiritual realm). I found this to be helpful, neutral, and sensitive in explaining how combatting irrational, intrusive thoughts with an aggressive/fighting disposition (even with using prayer and Scripture) can mistakenly cycle more anxiety by giving the thoughts weight. You can trust God, but also, unintentionally, be feeding a cycle of anxiety by validating intrusive thoughts; the authors speak about how sometimes people have a crisis of faith from doing this.
Purchased "Needing to Know For Sure" as soon as I finished this. Will likely buy the "Overcoming Anticipatory Anxiety" too.
Here are a few notes I made about the book:
I recognize that whoosh was "first fear." I can’t control first fear. This is the amygdala doing its job. It’s normal. First fear can be caused by...
United States on Dec 18, 2023
Test User: I have nothing more to say here. If you happen to have intrusive thoughts, you need this book.
Germany on Dec 14, 2023
shreyas shah: A good self explanatory book to guide you to learn how to overcome intrusive thoughts. A great book for self help.
India on Nov 20, 2023
EricaErica: I’ve dealt with intrusive thoughts since I was a young teen (of course, at the time I didn’t know there was a name for them- I just thought I was insane.) They have varied in theme. A few weeks ago, I was triggered by something in the media that popped a thought into my head that threw me off very badly. It caused panic attacks that kept me up at night. I couldn’t eat. I couldn’t function at all. My husband would get home and I would just sob because I couldn’t cope. I was stuck in the OCD trap of mental rumination of asking and answering question after question with reassurance that only made the thought grow stronger and come up with “even worse” what ifs. I could recognize that it was an intrusive thought, but I had zero idea of what to do about it. Recognizing that it is intrusive is just, unfortunately, not enough. I was so desperate and hopeless and I was starting to think I wouldn’t have a happy future because of this thought- or a future at all. I truly felt like I was in the trenches of hell.
I discovered this book after doing some research. I read the negative reviews and almost didn’t purchase it. I decided to anyway, and I am incredibly happy I...
United States on Feb 17, 2023
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| Total Reviews | 175 reviews | 145 reviews | 56 reviews |
| Item Weight | 9.9 ounces | ||
| Paperback | 192 pages | ||
| Dimensions | 5.75 x 0.5 x 8.75 inches | ||
| Anxiety Disorders (Books) | Anxiety Disorders | Anxiety Disorders | |
| ISBN-10 | 1626254346 | ||
| ISBN-13 | 978-1626254343 | ||
| Obsessive Compulsive Disorder | Obsessive Compulsive Disorder | ||
| Publisher | New Harbinger Publications; Illustrated edition | ||
| Language | English | ||
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