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"Resettling Your Brain in the Age of Cheap Pleasures"--
We are living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting. The smartphone is the modern-day hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7 for a wired generation. Lembke explores new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain-- and what to do about it....
2) Mistress
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"Ben isn't like most people. Unable to control his racing thoughts, he's a man consumed by his obsessions: movies, motorcycles, presidential trivia-and Diana Hotchkiss, a beautiful woman Ben knows he can never have. When Diana is found dead outside her apartment, Ben's infatuation drives him on a hunt to find out what happened to the love of his life. Ben soon discovers that the woman he pined for was hiding a shocking double life. And now someone...
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"Junk has become ubiquitous in America today. Who doesn't have a basement, attic, closet, or storage unit filled with stuff too good to throw away? Or, more accurately, stuff you think is too good to throw away. When journalist and author Alison Stewart was confronted with emptying her late parents' overloaded basement, a job that dragged on for months, it got her thinking: How did it come to this? Why do smart, successful people hold on to old Christmas...
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Although the much-satirized image of a house overflowing with National Geographics and infested with cats may make us chuckle, the reality of compulsive hoarding is no laughing matter. The most common reason for evictions in the US and a significant risk factor for fatal house fires, compulsive hoarding is a treatable condition related to obsessive-compulsive disorder. It is characterized by the acquisition of possessions that have little or no value,...
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When you have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), it can feel like your own mind is at war with itself. Instead of having productive and positive thoughts, you rehash the same worries and fears over and over again until they become unbearable. Did you really remember to lock the front door? What if you were to hit someone while driving your car? You may find yourself engaging in exhaustive rituals to keep these thoughts at bay. But soon, the doubts...
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Many people who hoard understand the extent of their problem and are open to help. This book is not for them. Digging Out is for the concerned and frustrated friends and family members of people who do not fully accept the magnitude of their hoarding problem and refuse help from others. If you have a friend or loved one with a hoarding problem and are seeking a way to guide him or her to a healthier, safer way of life, this book is for you. In Digging...
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How to Overcome the Evil of Gambling/Covetousness is a book about being obedient to God's word from the Holy Bible scripture verses teach us about the evil of the love of money. How because of our greediness, we stray from the faith and pierce ourselves with many sorrows. How it's the root of all kinds of evil, when we covet money that we have not earned. How God wants us to be a good steward of our money that He has blessed us with, to use for our...
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Have you been struggling with moving forward with growth in your life?
In a world of material things, we have become fixated with buying and having, to the extent that we often find that we have all the latest gadgets and fashions, whether we need them or not. This means spending excessively and then taking more time to clean and tidy up, leaving us feeling unhappy and missing out on more worthwhile pursuits.
But there is an easy answer and it starts...
10) Métodos Para Curar la Procrastinación, Mala productividad, y Pobre Gestión del Tiempo: Aprende a
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Si quieres aprender a dejar de procrastinar, ser improductivo y tener un mal sentido del manejo del tiempo, sigue leyendo. ¿Tienes problemas para priorizar tareas? ¿Luchas para terminar de metas establecidas a tiempo? ¿Eres constantemente interrumpido? ¿Tienes problemas para conocer el propósito de tu vida? Si lo hace, dentro de este libro, varios tipos de personas exitosas han compartido sus conocimientos sobre cómo superar estos problemas...
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What possesses someone to save every scrap of paper that's ever come into his home? What compulsions drive a person to sacrifice her marriage or career for an accumulation of seemingly useless things? Randy Frost and Gail Steketee were the first to study hoarding when they began their work a decade ago. They didn't expect that they would end up treating hundreds of patients and fielding thousands of calls from the families of hoarders. Their vivid...
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Faith Words
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2013.
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First edition.
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x, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Offers an inspiring way to break free from the vicious cycle of toxic emotions and destructive addictions. Prince contends that this cycle begins with wrong beliefs-- asserting that if you can change what you believe, you can change your life.
15) Aprenda los Hábitos de las Personas Altamente Efectivas y Cómo Lograr la Autodisciplina: Comprend
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Si quieres aprender hábitos de las personas altamente efectivas y cómo lograr autodisciplina, entonces sigue leyendo... ¿Tienes problemas para mantenerse comprometido? ¿No es capaz de concentrarse? ¿Luchando en áreas debido a malos hábitos? ¿O tiene dificultades para construir relaciones sólidas? Si lo hace, dentro de éste libro, varias personas exitosas han compartido sus conocimientos sobre cómo superar estos problemas y más; la mayoría...
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Este libro habla de un largo trabajo, de intereses compartidos y de dos estilos diferentes. Después de varias décadas de colaboración, llama la atención que sigamos dando vueltas a las mismas cuestiones sobre la condición humana y la psicopatología. Una de ellas, las relaciones del lenguaje y la locura, da pie a esta obra.
Han pasado muchos años desde las primeras publicaciones sobre el automatismo mental, las voces y la xenopatía: el polo...
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The author/researcher explores the process of self-healing during his encounters with OCD using a unique self-search method and integral psychology framework. The book contains the unaltered self-dialogue (self-interview) scripts of the doctoral research. The dialogue is designed to capture the sensual attention through manifestation of OCD's common attributes. Through heightened awareness, author invites us to pathways to self-discovery and change,...
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The human mind is the greatest danger to the human body.
Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder is a disorder of the mind that disturbs over 10% of the human population but remains a chaotic enigma to this day. Fatalities of this deadly affliction are often trapped inside the impulsivity of their own selves, unable to escape from their own lethal cycles of manipulation and self-blame.
Borderline victims can be dangerous....
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Originally published in 1800, Crimes of Passion contained eleven stories and an essay on the novel. The present book contains three abridged tales. In "Florville and Courval" we find not only a reinterpretation and elaboration of the Oedipus myth, but an unforgettable illustration of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade's artistic creed. He was not simply an eccentric aristocrat with artistic pretensions, but a pathological rebel against the Age of...
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Robin Book
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[2014]
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238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Este libro ayuda a los lectores tomen medidas en contra de sus obsesiones, como sentirse atormentado por pensamientos perturbadores o no deseados o ser obligado a vivir por reglas rígidas. Muchas personas sufren de trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo (TOC), pero pueden no saberlo. Este libro puede ayudar a reconocer los síntomas y aprender cómo ayudar a controlarlos.
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