Needing to Know for Sure: A CBT-Based Guide to Overcoming Compulsive Checking and Reassurance Seeking

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As a self-help-books-connoisseur and a psychology-books-enjoyer—I've read a lot of them—this is perhaps the greatest book of all time. Powerful skills based in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to help you break free from the fear of uncertainty and put a stop to compulsive checking and reassurance seeking. The fact of the matter is, when you're not feeling anxious you KNOW what's right and wrong, and this book serve to help you tolerate and think clearly in an anxious haze. Most importantly, you'll learn to deal with those pesky "doubt attacks" and trust your own judgement.

Needing to Know for Sure | Martin N. Seif | 9781684033706 Needing to Know for Sure | Martin N. Seif | 9781684033706

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. 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.

Although that is a criteria of OCD, rumination and worry can also be seen in GAD and PTSD, and in milder forms, are a part of being human.

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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.

Mindful acceptance of the presence of anxiety allows it to pass, and builds resilience to the uncertainty underlying all anxiety. Or, instead of a person randomly worrying about health/safety of family members, without any reason, how about a person who worries but has also experienced multiple tragic losses to accidents, drugs, etc? Read as a clinician, so I’m not sure how clients may see this book, but for me, it was not too clear. They provide clear guidance on how a person can disentangle him- or herself from these counterproductive behaviors.