January nonfiction- OCD: Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts

[Di]

In January our nonfiction group read is Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: A CBT-Based Guide to Getting Over Frightening, Obsessive, or Disturbing Thoughts by Sally M. Winston. You chose this via poll (results here).

Description:
You are not your thoughts! In this powerful book, two anxiety experts offer proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills to help you get unstuck from disturbing thoughts, overcome the shame these thoughts can bring, and reduce your anxiety.

If you suffer from unwanted, intrusive, frightening, or even disturbing thoughts, you might worry about what these thoughts mean about you. Thoughts can seem like messages—are they trying to tell you something? But the truth is that they are just thoughts, and don’t necessarily mean anything. Sane and good people have them. If you are someone who is plagued by thoughts you don’t want—thoughts that scare you, or thoughts you can’t tell anyone about—this book may change your life.


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[RM(Alwaysdaddygirl)]

Aloha All,

I am sorry for the delay. I was having a problem with the email address of this account. I was not able to post until verify. I had to wait to get that corrected.

This is open all year.

How is this book going, please?

[Calla Reviews (كالا)]

The goal of going to therapy for most people for intrusive thoughts is to help if not rid them of the shame,

fear and secrecy that surrounds these thoughts. The thoughts themselves will never leave. With that said I think this book is an excellent companion or stand alone text. I have always been an advocate of sufferers diving head first into learning all they can about their disorders, being proactive and advocating for themselves with this knowledge if possible. No one wants to go to therapy or take medicine and feel like that is all that is keeping them afloat. This book does an excellent job of pinpointing the problem in an easy to understand manner and providing doable solutions to help.
Personally this book has helped me and I hope that mental health practitioners read this book to get a better understanding of OCD sufferers with intrusive thoughts as well as recommend this book for those that do. I was so satisfied with this book that I did not hesitate to buy "Needing to know for sure by the same authors". As well I do not hesitate to re-read when I get off track or my OCD is being extremely persistent and I feel overwhelmed. This book helps me get back on track to start pinpointing what is going on and redo-ing steps to get it back under control. It is always hard, as OCD tends to be, but I am thankful to have such a reference that is easy to understand and laid out well enough to implement. This is the information I wish I had at my fingertips when I first started therapy.

[Di]

Calla wrote: "The goal of going to therapy for most people for intrusive thoughts is to help if not rid them of the shame,

fear and secrecy that surrounds these thoughts. The thoughts themselves will never leav..."

thank you for your review. I'm glad that sometimes books I have chosen help somebody :)