Needing to Know for Sure
A CBT-Based Guide to Overcoming Compulsive Checking and Reassurance Seeking
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Martin N. Seif PhD
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Sally M. Winston PsyD
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"How do I know I made the right decision?" "What if I'm wrong?" "I need to know for sure."
Do you have thoughts like these - thoughts that cause you to second-guess yourself? Do you find yourself repeatedly checking your email for no reason, asking others for their opinions about something again and again, or lying awake at night overanalyzing and planning ahead in an attempt to feel less anxious? If so, you probably have a problem with compulsive reassurance seeking. The good news is that you can break free from this "reassurance trap" - this book will show you how.
In this unique guide, you'll find proven-effective tips and tools using CBT to help you tolerate uncertainty, face specific worrying scenarios, and gradually reduce the compulsion to incessantly seek reassurance. Most importantly, you'll learn to deal with those pesky "doubt attacks" and trust your own judgment.
Asking for reassurance is a self-reinforcing behavior - if you do it, you're less likely to handle stressful situations without needing further reassurance. And so the cycle continues. The CBT skills in this book will help you break this exhausting and painful pattern, so you can build self-confidence and improve your life.
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- Anonymous User
- 2024-12-14
LIFE CHANGING
This book taught me how life is all about uncertainties, and we just have to embrace them. Finding peace in that we truly will never know anything for sure in our lifetime. So continuing to feed those thoughts and fall into the "reassurance trap" will only make those uncomfortable thoughts live on. In order to let them go, you need to just let them be. Don't feed your thoughts with reassurance, just accept that those thoughts come and go. The less you react to them, the faster they go. Train your mind to be okay with feeling uncertainty. Then you won't be so scared anymore.
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- Rikiki
- 2023-07-21
Excellent Book to cope with Anxiety
This is an excellent group to learn how to cope with anxiety. I really like the authors and got this Audible because I loved their other book about Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts. The performance is great too!
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