Allow the worry and distress to be there, expand your awareness so you can take in the rest of the world, and pivot your attention to whatever you’re currently doing or what you would like to be doing. She is co-author of “Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts”, and co-author of the new book “Needing to Know for Sure: A CBT-Based Guide to Overcoming Compulsive Checking and Reassurance Seeking”. For years I thought my looping ideas/nagging worries and looping negative thoughts were a defect of my brain. I was happy to see the re-appearance of Worried Voice, False Comfort and Wise Mind - with Wise Mind fleshed out more fully than in previous books.

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If you answered ‘yes’ to one or more of these questions, this book can be a huge shortcut to lifting the burden of anxiety and distress. After all, who hasn’t double-checked to ensure their door is locked, or asked their physician for reassurance about a medical condition? McLellarn, PhD, founder and director of the Anxiety and Panic Treatment Center, LLC in Portland, OR (Robert W.Asking for reassurance is a self-reinforcing behaviour-if you do it, you're less likely to handle stressful situations without needing further reassurance. Half joke, but I mean it—the approach and techniques taught by this book are really good and easily applicable to any manifestation of OCD. Through the gentle nature of CBT, the book invites the reader to attempt an alternative approach, one with more promising results.

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To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Seif, PhD, is cofounder of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), and was a member of its board of directors from 1977 through 1991. g., instead of a perfectly healthy person “needing to know for sure” that they are not having a heart attack, what about a person with a heart arrhythmia?Seif is former associate director of the Anxiety and Phobia Treatment Center at White Plains Hospital, a faculty member of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and is board certified in cognitive behavioral psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. I was already in a pretty dark place way way before I had my first panic attack but that panic attack who invited more darkness into my life, also got me looking for sources of light to my darkness and I've found so much. Read as a clinician, so I’m not sure how clients may see this book, but for me, it was not too clear. Seif and Winston clearly explain how a person's desire for absolute certainty through compulsive checking and reassurance seeking only fuels the fire of anxiety.

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Most importantly, the authors offer step-by-step guidance to get you disentangled from reassurance seeking and back to living your life by increasing your ability to handle uncertainty. I know they will resonate with clients as they read about themselves, feeling both normalized and hopeful.This book is actually super helpful; I feel like I’ve ascended to a zen state and don’t need therapy anymore. 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. If you or anyone you know struggles with obsessive or compulsive tendencies, this book is an ideal starting place. The clearest, most effective therapy I've encountered in understanding anxiety and learning to be comfortable with uncertainty. It offers helpful clarifications about unproductive reassurance seeking, unhelpful self-talk, and common categories of reassurance traps.