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

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I bought this book on a whim and ended up reading it end to end, paperclipping most of it. I recommend it to anyone who feels insecure, guilty all of the time, and self-conscous as I have felt most of my life. I also refer to this book whenever I feel myself falling into a rut. Thank you Dr. Russianoff!

Although I have not finished the entire book, I see myself evolving into a different person. Someone who feels more assured about herself, more confident and more loving towards herself. This book does not provide immediate cures, but it allows you to become aware of what is going on in your mind and heart and gives you the choice to detangle those bad habits from your life.

Russianoff provides a well written account of the issues facing many supposedly-successful individuals today. The book is fun to read, easy to use and a great treat for a brief respite. The one thing that is embarrasing is the title of the book... it makes it hard to bring it out in public to read.

Thumbs up... you won't regret this purchase!

This is without doubt one of the best self help books I've ever read, I have been reading self help books for three years now trying to break free from the oughts and shoulds of life.

Its helping me find the authentic me and giving me a spine of self confidence to live life as I believe I'm meant to.

I thoroughly reccommend this book.

Vivid mental pictures and eye-opening advice for overcoming crippling and destructive emotional habits. Learn to deal with your "Insecurity Blankets", "Hidden Contracts", and "Center-of-the-Universe Syndrome" until you can finally proclaim "Aha, I See!". Your life will never be the same again.

This book is very easy to read and gets right to the point. The author is very insightful and really helps you to recognize your emotional bad habits and gives practical, almost simple (in a good way), suggestions to overcome them. It's easy to flip back to the reviews at the end of the sections for the main points to remember. I ordered a 2nd book for a close friend who is now reading it.

I bought this book to attempt to help myself out of, you guessed it, my bad habits. I tend to get jealous, angry, and extremely bitter during the course of a day, to the point where I start taking my rage out in the form of cold shoulders to my friends and family. So I bought this to help me attempt to fix this.

What I found is more of the author's actual patient's stories (under an annoymous name of course) than actual steps to fix my habits. For the Inferiority chapter, for example, the author explains how the patient had an abusive husband who put all of his faults on her, making her feel inferior. She goes on to tell how she overcame this. But I'm not her, I don't have an abusive husband, so I can't really connect to this example. And there's not much beyond that.

The author also is in a way using a broken record technique to enforce her advice on you. You read one chapter, then in the next, she basically states the main idea of the previous chapter and applies it to this one. It gets very repitious.

Call me mislead, but I thought this book would help me break my habits, not tell me how others visited a phychiatrist and overcame their own.

This is by far the best self help book I have ever read and can even imagine existing. I was having a rough patch, and bought 3 self help books from Amazon, I started one, it bored me, I moved to this, read it super fast, recommended it to everyone I know, and now feel like my other self help books don't even need to be read! This book is not boring like most, and it doesn't have a lot of boring and tedious exercises. It's a super easy read, entertaining and makes SO much sense!

These lessons should be taught in school. I've been seeing people on the street and thinking, "They need to read my book!" It addresses esteem issues, social issues, phobias, and on and on. The stuff in the book is quite easy to apply too. It's great. Get it. Get it for everyone you know who isn't perfectly happy. It changed my life in a way that I don't think many other self help books or even therapy could.

I have owned at least 4 of these books and constantly talk about it. I have given them as gifts and some have been borrowed and never returned. Over the past 5 years I have recommended this book to all of my friends. It is great for anyone who has broken up with someone or who just feels down in the dumps. It is very uplifting and if you can actually make a change in your life this book will help you. Trust me!

It helps you see how you react to people and situations around you, and shows you how to change your way of thinking in situations.

I liked this book as I found a lot of similarities in the actions of the people mentioned in the book and myself. It can get pretty wordy and redundant as the author drives a point home - but I finished actually remembering a lot of what was said.