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

by RUSSIANOFF, PENELOPE

• ISBN13: 9780553282153
• ISBN10: 0553282158
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: Bantam

Summary

Learn to change the emotional bad habits that make you unhappy. - Recognize Your Emotional Bad Habits (and start to break them) - Throw Off Your Security Blanket (and accept that you can have happiness) - Talk Tenderly To Yourself (and increase self-esteem) - Use The "To You-Ness To Me-Ness" Technique (and respond to negative comments with firm conviction, not rage) - Get Rid Of The Imposter Phenomenon (and stop devaluing yourself) - Accept Praise (and cease being your own worst critic) - Stop Measuring Your Self

Author Biography

Penelope Russianoff was a psychotherapist and the author of Why Do I Think I Am Nothing Without a Man? and When Will I Be Happy? She died in 2000.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(5)
Emotional Bad Habits: Our Insecurity Blankets	5	(19)
Shedding Those Cultural Cliches	24	(11)
Can You Change?	35	(14)
``Aha! I See!'': Recognizing Your Emotional Bad Habits	49	(16)
The Only Person Who Can Reject You---Is You	65	(26)
Talk Tenderly to Yourself	91	(11)
To You-ness To Me-ness: Making Your Feelings Known	102	(8)
Guilt: Banishing the Gray Ghost	110	(14)
Assertiveness: The Emotional Good Habit	124	(13)
``Sorry, I'm Not Available''	137	(10)
Inferiority: Chasing the Nobody Blues	147	(28)
Depression: Breaking the Black Mood	175	(17)
Sex and Emotional Bad Habits	192	(24)
Fantasies: Use Your Imagination	216	(11)
Anger and Anxiety	227	(23)
Phoblas and Obsessions: Prisons of the Mind	250	(16)
The Last Word	266	(7)
Bibliography	273	(8)
Index	281