Brain Lock 20Th Annv Ed

I liked the analogies used like automatic transmission, shifting gears manually. I hope by practicing the 4 step approach I can overcome my ocd.

This book is must have for people with OCD. In India Psychotherapy is expensive and weekly visit to a good therapist may cost around Rs 4000 at least in a month. Have this book and follow it judiciously and it will help you overcome OCD. Although professional help is needed but it’s not an excuse for not having this book. OCD can took away people youth and relationships. It’s a biochemical problem in brain which people should understand and learn to fight with it. This book provide ways to fight with it and defeat it. For a healthy mind follow the suggestions provided here and help yourself and your loved ones.

Implementing the strategies require a lot of patience and hard-work. The book cannot do magic, but the strategies are highly effective. Personally I think that following these techniques will change brain chemistry. It's a best substitute for Behavior Therapist, no doubt about it. A must buy book, if you or your loved ones have OCD, but as always he/she should be ready to hard-work, should have patience, and ready to accept the change. Thanks for Jeffrey for such a great book!

Best self treatment book for ocd ,i absolutely loved this book,i would recommend it for anyone who has ocd,this is great work,by doing 4steps and using mindfullness awareness i was able to control my ocd thoughts,now ocd symptoms dont bother me, its me who is in charge of my life, not ocd,i thank god for this book and to the author i am so grateful for your book,this book improved and healed me so much ,love this book,but remember you have to do the work for the recovery,it is more fun than you realise,at the beginning you may experience so much pain,distress,but now i can ignore the ocd and focus on what i want to do...❤️❤️❤️loved this book

I have buy consulting a doctor who suggested me this book. It is easy to understand and tells a lot about OCD and how we can amend the behavior to get rid of our compulsive habits. Many cases of people are given which helps in better understanding our own behavior. Must read. Worth it book.

Must Read. Period.

Item arrived timely. The book is very good. It has techniques that help you cope with your ocd.

This book really helped me. May God bless the author. those who have uncontrollable intrusive thoughts affecting their day to day life please read and study this book.U will be amazed by the change. love you all. 🥰

Un capolavoro, in grado di aiutare chiunque soffra di OCD. Anche se in certi casi non può sostituire il medico, rimane pur sempre di grande aiuto per il paziente, quando si trova ad affrontare la sua malattia in solitudine. In ogni caso, può funzionare come integrazione alla terapia del medico curante.

Ajuda em todas as questões mentais. Todo mundo deveria ler. Tanto para quem tem TOC, quanto para outras questões mentais.

Brain Lock is a book for those that would like an overhead view of their disorder. It helped me feel a detachment from the disease, not so much by encouraging me to dissociate myself from it, but rather by describing it as part of my brain whose opinions I should feel free to ignore. With OCD, you know it isn't normal to think how you do, but you feel like there will be consequences if you ignore your compulsions or distract yourself from your obsessions. And so, we either perform our nonsensical tasks, or we spend countless hours and valuable brain cycles going through the many reasons NOT to perform said tasks. One of the major revelations of Brain Lock is that BOTH of these responses play into the hands of the disorder. Either way, you are wasting your time and becoming unbelievably stressed out and not getting any closer to being rid of the problem. Only by looking at the thoughts as foreign and allowing yourself to move on to other business can you break yourself out of the cyclical thinking ("brain lock") that plagues us. I hope that you will find, as I have, that as the years progress, the brain lock subsides, and the real you emerges. It is not a cure, and there can be relapses. Despite this, it reminds me of exercising for years and getting injured. You are put out of your routine for a while, but once you are able to get back in the gym, you are not back where you were years ago. Your strength returns, and your progress resumes. 2010 Edit: Still doing well, but I wanted to join in with those recommending cognitive behavioral therapy (and ERP, and the rest of its friends). While this book was quite effective for me, it might be because I had/have a "pure obsession" type of OCD, where the compulsions are all performed mentally. These can include scrupulosity, health concerns, and counting. Exposure therapy is the gold standard for OCD (and phobias, and any disorder where there is an irrational anxiety/fear/disgust response that the brain fails to extinguish). This book has clearly worked for those with overt compulsions (checking, hoarding, cleaning), but I no longer consider it the first choice for such problems. This book does, indeed, recommend its own type of avoidance strategies. That said, the four steps encouraged me to refuse to engage in my mental rituals, accepting the concomitant distress as irrational and dismissible. In other words, this can be very effective exposure and acceptance therapy for pure obsession types of OCD.

I never write reviews but this book deserves one. I've been struggling with OCD as long as I can remember. Lately, it has gotten worse so I wanted to take action and do something about it. Just a few chapters into the book, I started applying the framework just a little bit and already saw great improvement after a few times. My OCD or the urges have already decreased dramatically and it has opened a whole new understanding of OCD, what it is and how I can treat it myself. It's been a true eye opener for me and I will continue to use these steps on a daily basis. I am positive that this will treat my OCD. Of course, it's no quick fix but it's a must read for anyone who suffers from this! 100% recommended.

I think that this book is really helpful for those who think they may have OCD. It explains the why, how and how to cope. I have it 4 stars because there is a lot of repetition which is a little annoying, the same information could have been written in 1/4 the amount of pages. However, it may be necessary for some people to read the same thing again and again. I actually found it comforting after awhile.