When Am I Going to Be Happy?: How to Break the Emotional Bad Habits That Make You Miserable

by Penelope Russianoff

Learn to change the emotional bad habits that make you unhappy.



- Recognize Your Emotional Bad Habits (and start to break them)



- Throw Off Your Security Blanket (and accept that you can have happiness)



- Talk Tenderly To Yourself (and increase self-esteem)



- Use The "To You-Ness To Me-Ness" Technique (and respond to negative comments with firm conviction, not rage)



- Get Rid Of The Imposter Phenomenon (and stop devaluing yourself)



- Accept Praise (and cease being your own worst critic)



- Stop Measuring Your Self

Genres: Self Help, Psychology

304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/05/nyr...

Reviews

[Dani · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice summary of some very useful fine-tuning/error-correction that can help with cognitive-emotional bad habits ... lots of coping strategies that it would be good for people to know. A nice short&sweet no-nonsense style, also. She illustrates her points with patient stories, but the stories are all very short and to the point.

[Gabriella · Rating 4 out of 5]

It postulates the fundamental changes that work to explore its implications through the experiences or challenges faced by your seld imposed negative mind. It helped decipher the meaning behind my own language and false allegations brought on by my thoughts. With the help of this book, it's possible to reversibly modify our brains so that they don't perceive ourselves as anything but infallable- we can stop trying to work on perfectionism.

[Jessica]

Began reading, but never finished because I emerged from the difficult period I was going through.I would like to read it in its entirety in the future though.

[Dawn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book that tells us the real deal with why society pushes us to be a certain way. I do not want to spoil this but the habits can be changed over time.

[Myrna Trauntvein · Rating 1 out of 5]

The author has some good ideas that are lost in bad suggestions. I am highly moral and found some of her ideas immoral. I would not recommend this book for that reason.

[Sue Kozlowski · Rating 5 out of 5]

Non-fiction. Self-help. Awesome! Second time I read this. Very helpful Three windows of perception and other practical methods.

[Simon nguyen · Rating 3 out of 5]

good psychology book for breaking bad habit.