I can’t figure it out. How much do the self help books really help? Do they help at all? They seem to move me forward an inch at a time, I think, but I’m not sure. What is your take on this subject?
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Welcome to recovery from a major illness. SZ recovery is an inch at a time. Recovery from my strokes was an inch at a time. Recovery from breaking my back and a lot of other parts was an inch at a time. Recovery from alcoholism is a work in progress after thirty years.
If you’re going forward and not back then take the win. It means you’re doing great.
Edit: To answer the original question, some help and some don’t. I like the ones with practical exercises. The ones that just regurgitate popular feel-good anecdotes are rather useless.
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Not for me. If you are referring to general mainstream self help books.
I can’t relate. I have had therapists that sounded like a self help book.
Did not work out for me either.
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Let it be known. I paid a price to be on earth and survive the pandemic and continue to pay. I refuse to give up; I choose Life.
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I didn’t want to mention what kind of self help books. I meant more like metaphysical stuff.
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Abstract thinking is nice. Making it to the end of the day without flipping one’s lid from stress is nicer.
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For me isolation is the problem. I need a meeting!
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Ive found ones that resonate with me and have been helpful and some that were useless. My advice is if youre picking a self help book, it is going to be beneficial to you to pick a self help book written by someone with similar issues to you or at least an expert in the topic. If its neither of those dont bother.
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Some of them are solid and helpful. Try to find the ones about things like CBT that are written by psychologists or social workers.
A lot of self help books are new age fluff. As with anything use discretion.
Self help books don’t help.
But reading books definitely helps.
Reading and focus are like meditation.
Books make us happy, says one article
that I had read
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New age? Those are totally useless.
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