Stop Obsessing!: How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions (Revised Edition) (Paperback)

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?By far the best self-help book for people with obsessions and compulsions that I have ever read. Unusually clear, exceptionally precise, and immensely practical.?
? Albert Ellis, Ph.D., author of A New Guide to Rational Living -- Review

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“By far the best self-help book for people with obsessions and compulsions that I have ever read. Unusually clear, exceptionally precise, and immensely practical.”
— Albert Ellis, Ph.D., author of A New Guide to Rational Living

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Product Details

• Paperback: 253 pages
• Publisher: Bantam; 1st edition (July 31, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553381172
• ISBN-13: 978-0553381177
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #10,968 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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78 of 79 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure obsessives & ritual thinkers take heart. THERE IS HELP!, July 15, 2002

By	Russell (Sunshine State) - See all my reviews

I have OCD and didn't understand what I had or how to treat it. I was treated with medication for 5 years and had to go off it because of liver problems all the while not understanding the kind of OCD I have. I had a relapse about 10 months later and really struggled for answers. I discovered the self help books here at amazon and found this book. I am a pure obsessive and ritual thinker and never scored high on any OCD test. This book helped me understand what I have, how to treat it, and has specific suggestions on developing a CBT program that works for me. It has been such a great help to me I can't begin to tell you. I really recommend this book to all OCD suffers but especially to you pure obsessives as there is not much out there for us. I read three books and this was by far the best.

57 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical Help That Works!, January 10, 2000

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This review is from: Stop Obsessing! How To Overcome Your Obsessions And Compulsions (Paperback)

I had never allowed myself to seriously think that I had OCD, I was just a little quirky, I thought. What I had was a mild range of compulsions that relieved my anxiety - counting (silently)by twos to twenty, constantly rechecking to see if I'd locked the house, the car, turned off my headlights, feeling obligated to read anything that even slightly interested me (and most things did, because what if there was something in that particular book that I needed to know?), mentally repeating words I'd hear, and all the while I'd think something wrong here. Well, anyway, among the solutions I've found have been in this book. Train yourself to reduce the compulsions (mine distracted me from my real fears), it can be done. There may be not cure but there is effective management.

42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book - highly recommended, May 7, 2005

By	Anonymous (U.S.) - See all my reviews

This is an excellent book. I think it is the best self-help book on OCD. Luckily my CB therapist does these exact techniques with me in therapy so it's like this book is a hard-copy of the work I am doing. It's a great reference manual. Take this book seriously - it will help you if you follow the practices with as much patience and effort as you can. The thing that clicked for me after ready only the first few chapters of this book, is that my thoughts are obsessions! They are exagerrated, irrational, not based on reality! I never before could grasp that concept because I actually believed that my obsessions and suspicions might be real (that I was just missing something) and that somehow my mental compulsions would help me to relieve the tension and anxiety that my obsessive thoughts were causing. It's amazing... it all literally clicked. These thoughts are obsessions. They are NOT REAL!! Wow.