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

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Most importantly, you'll learn to deal with those pesky "doubt attacks" and trust your own judgement. It offers helpful clarifications about unproductive reassurance seeking, unhelpful self-talk, and common categories of reassurance traps. Most importantly, you’ll learn to deal with those pesky "doubt attacks" and trust your own judgment. clients I’m working or have worked with, so how will those people manage to apply these concepts then? After all, who hasn’t double-checked to ensure their door is locked, or asked their physician for reassurance about a medical condition?

Needing to Know for Sure: A CBT-Based Guide to Overcoming Needing to Know for Sure: A CBT-Based Guide to Overcoming

It was particularly helpful in guiding the reader on how to achieve recovery from the need for constant reassurance. 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.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. I was afraid of going insane above all else, actually dying was way bellow it on the ladder of my many fears at the time. I found this book to be pretty relevant to my life; I've known myself to be a very anxious person but never realized that using techniques geared to coping with OCD might actually be useful to addressing the root of my issues.

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

Needing to Know For Sure is a no-nonsense accessible explanation of how being uncertain is a fact of life for everybody and how even the most dyed-in-the-wool overthinkers and control freaks and overcome the excessive need for assurance and control. I’m positive this book can and will bring a change into your life, you just have to read it probably many times and trust the process. 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.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? 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”. It perfectly describes my anxiety-reddened patients who are so consumed with doubt and uncertainty, that they need constant reassurance to live their life. 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. 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.

Compulsive Checking and Reassurance Seeking - The OCD Stories Compulsive Checking and Reassurance Seeking - The OCD Stories

Asking for reassurance is a self-reinforcing behavior--if you do it, you're less likely to handle stressful situations without needing further reassurance. Brought up the ways I've been needing reassurance in many other aspects of my life besides physical health (hypochondria being the reason I read the book). 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. They are spot on with getting to the root anxiety of uncertainty and even have tips for coping with subtle unproductive reassurance. Doubts are a natural production of the human mind, some thoughts are not worth considering or reacting to, and nothing can be guaranteed.Tremendously valuable book for anyone suffering from obsessive thought, but also for anyone who is professionally involved with OCD patients. I know they will resonate with clients as they read about themselves, feeling both normalized and hopeful. It has this serene focus and clarity that I've never seen in any other book, perhaps in the whole of non-fiction.

Needing to Know for Sure: A CBT-Based Guide to Overcoming

Like with any good read, I found myself having a hard time putting the book down while simultaneously not wanting to reach the end. Kupfer, PhD, clinical psychologist with a private practice in Falls Church, VA, with forty years of experience treating OCD (David L. The treatment method, the therapy they’ve explained is the most advance, easier(not lengthy) and to the point. For those of you who have found yourselves caught in the endless cycle of reassurance seeking, this book is for you. 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.

I can clearly see what I was doing wrong and Why I was stuck and most importantly how to get out of stuck state. Needing to Know for Sure provides much-needed guidance to help you know the difference between reassurance seeking and information seeking by giving you great examples and helpful facts throughout the book. A big criticism however is the way the author suggests that intrusive thoughts are indicative of OCD. The clearest, most effective therapy I've encountered in understanding anxiety and learning to be comfortable with uncertainty.