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Feeling Better: A 6-Week Mind-Body Program to Ease Your Chronic Symptoms Paperback – Illustrated, December 26, 2007
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Do you suffer from ongoing pain or other chronic medical symptoms such as fatigue, lower back pain, arthritis, acid indigestion, insomnia, or migraines? Do you feel as though your symptoms are taking over your life?
Thirty percent of the population suffers from chronic debilitating illnesses and pain that respond only partially to conventional medicine, but this doesn't mean that there is no relief in sight. Dr. Arthur Barsky, psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine, has found that changing the way you think about your illness can have a remarkable effect on how you experience your symptoms. The groundbreaking program he offers in Stop Being Your Symptoms and Start Being Yourself teaches patients to master the five psychological factors that make chronic symptoms persist through hundreds of exercises, worksheets, and patient examples.
You may not be able to completely eliminate your medical symptoms, but it is possible to control your symptoms rather than letting them control you—and this book shows you how.
- Print length256 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateDecember 26, 2007
- Dimensions5.3 x 0.65 x 8 inches
- ISBN-10006076614X
- ISBN-13978-0060766146
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Arthur J. Barsky, M.D., is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of psychiatric research at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is the author of Worried Sick and is a widely recognized authority in his field. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
Emily C. Deans, M.D., is a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychiatrist in the Boston community. Dr. Deans is highly experienced with chronic symptoms sufferers. She lives in Norfolk, Massachusetts.
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- Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (December 26, 2007)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 006076614X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0060766146
- Item Weight : 7 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.3 x 0.65 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #577,897 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #188 in Physical Impairments (Books)
- #1,725 in Cognitive Psychology (Books)
- #4,939 in Meditation (Books)
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The book presents a six week program for reducing your obsession with your negative feelings, including tricks like "worry time," meditation, and my favorite: limit health research on the Internet to a specific, limited time per week.
Each week builds on the week before, and provides over a dozen activities and approaches to try. There is no need to try each, but only a handful. This feature means that you can complete the full program no matter your current state, and that if you do the program again you will get new insights and improvements out of it.
I have been actively recommending this book to several people over the years, and I really think their lives would be better for reading it.
It took a debilitating illness that had me bed-ridden multiple days a week and made it a manageable disease that at worst just leads to a bit of a slow day. I can't thank the authors of this book enough for writing this.
Even if you don't have a chronic illness, if you ever experience pain, you should read this.





