Do you have thoughts like these--thoughts that cause you to second-guess yourself, and lead to anxiety, stress, and worry? If you care about someone with OCD, this book will show you how to stop offering unproductive reassurance and help this person embrace a challenging life. This " Sequel" edition provides new perspectives and tools in a clear manner that is easy to understand and apply.

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Asking for reassurance is a self-reinforcing behavior―if you do it, you’re less likely to handle stressful situations without needing further reassurance. Needing to Know for Sure is a terrific resource for anyone who wants to understand how futile attempts to eliminate uncertainty in life are at the core of any obsession. As someone who suffers from very minor OCD and the need for reassurance, I found this book very helpful. In clear and straightforward language, the authors lay out how our unwillingness to accept uncertainty creates anxiety, and offer a variety of very helpful suggestions for surrendering to and simply accepting that uncertainty is part of living.

Asking for reassurance is a self-reinforcing behavior—if you do it, you’re less likely to handle stressful situations without needing further reassurance. Now, Martin Seif and Sally Winston, two of the foremost experts in the world working in this area, provide a very helpful and easy to implement set of interventions to overcome these annoying and sometimes life-interfering problems. It perfectly describes my anxiety-reddened patients who are so consumed with doubt and uncertainty, that they need constant reassurance to live their life. 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. We learn that, in the face of a threat, attempting to feel safe by resolving doubt is a natural human response.

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I feel this book was 70% examples of how people addicted to seeking reassurance think/how a sticky mind works and only 30% information on how to deal with it. If you are filled with doubt; can’t make a decision without input from others; are constantly checking and rechecking; or lie awake dwelling, planning, and reviewing—rest assured, this is the perfect book for you. This time addressing uncertainty and reassurance seeking in ways in which so many are intimately acquainted.

Ken Goodman, LCSW, board member of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, and president of www. For years I thought my looping ideas/nagging worries and looping negative thoughts were a defect of my brain.

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Most importantly, you’ll learn to deal with those pesky “doubt attacks” and trust your own judgment.This book is actually super helpful; I feel like I’ve ascended to a zen state and don’t need therapy anymore. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The clearest, most effective therapy I've encountered in understanding anxiety and learning to be comfortable with uncertainty.

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I started reading intensively from morning to evening and did most of the exercises they tell you to do. I still have some bad days, that due to my mind still having the anxious tendency tends to be worse than a regular bad day for a person usually is.

As a recovering perfectionist caught up frequently in worries and anxieties about whether I’m doing the right thing (and always desperate for certainty) this book taught me useful tools and wisdom about how futile that effort is and the value in embracing the creativity, excitement, and growth that accompanies uncertainty.