On my first Tuesday off ,about three months ago, I decided to go to the Library to see if they had a certain book that I could try and borrow to study for my second go at the CPC test. The library didn't have the book. So I went to go look in my favorite areas to see what they did have that the brick and mortar book stores here do not.
I found this book.
When I picked it up form the shelf I thought 'Hmm that is an interesting title'. I have had a few issues since about September where I felt I wasn't doing quite as well as I should, but couldn't put it down to much more than that I had other things that caught my attention or felt to tired. then I started to read the book and it grabbed my attention with in the first chapter, and I knew that this was part of my issue. I stayed at the Library for as long as I could reading about 50 pages, and deciding that this is a book that I need to own. So I went to Barnes and Noble, Page One and Hastings, but couldn't find it any where. I ended up buying it off of Amazon and waiting a week for it.
The concept of certain things hit so close to home that it really scares me, but it speaks to me and clicks in my mind the way no book has for a decade. The book that Click like this back then is one that I share with friends who need help in seeing that what they see is not always as wrong as others. My so called 'Pay if forward book', and it has actually helped a few people as far as I know.
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| The last book to speak to me in this way was this one. |
Here are a few of them.
"People try to protect themselves against feeling bad by not feeling too good." I do this now.
"Misery Addicts tend to give themselves less than what they need."
"Misery Addict's are addicted to the system they have devised to protect themselves from unbearable disappointment." the went into further detail of avoidance, which is something I have use largely in the past 5 years.
"The Misery Addict absolutely must use support to make it. Yet all their instincts warn them against revealing themselves to others."
"If we continue to try to control something that can't be controlled, we keep ourselves stuck in our addiction to Misery."
These quotes Have helped me to stop and think and see certain patterns that I have been going through. As a result I have been striving to not fall back into the lines that I have used for way too long. Already it has helped me greatly. I think that especially with the way we are all stuck in thinking because of the economy, this book should be read by more of us. So please go find a copy somewhere and read at least the first half. Maybe it will help you too.
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