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The Unhappiness Syndrome

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A way to navigate through emotions that can hold you back from your full potential and from your own ability to live your best life a road map of sorts is to underline to begin the process of self-healing and progress further according to the author's own experience

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I felt this book didn’t really have a lot of new things to say that haven’t been said before, however there were some good points throughout it. It was enjoyable for the most part.

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Overall, I did not find this book very helpful. I like that the book centers on positivity. It did lose me about halfway thru. The entire tone of the book changed.

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A practical and easy to follow guide on how to fight negativity and negative thinking. Thank you for the opportunity .

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A great guide on improving one's outlook on life. It's practical and provides helpful affirmations and insight on how to navigate through negative thinking.

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This book felt like a one glove fits all solution. I enjoy self-help, business and any format of psychology books, but this one didn't feel like any of them. I didn't enjoy it and tried with difficulty to finish it. I don't particularly recommend it to anyone I know.

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"Multitudes of people in this world are unaware that they are suffering from their own love of unhappiness."

Genius. This book is a must read, not only for those who are unhappy, but they shall profit from it greatly if they are brave enough to embrace the truth and open enough to let the message of this book sink in. I loved it and could develop a better understanding of myself and the people around me.

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I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book courtesy of NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book courtesy of NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I read this book because the description said it would help change our negative thought patterns.

Overall, I did not find this book very helpful. The first half was helpful with some good advice and affirmations. The last half of the book I was not able to relate to and a good part of it I did not agree with. The topic turned to; finding a spouse, how to get along with a difficult boss and religion.

I felt some of the author’s comments were outdated. Under the section “unhappiness syndrome for women”, there is a chapter called “I can’t find the right person to marry”. It compares finding a spouse to job hunting. The author's advice is to think of marriage as a limited-time opportunity and not to set your sights too high.

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This has a few nuggets that represent really good advice, and I have wrote them down and will attempt to make the change!
However, most of it is the author forcing his personal opinion on his reader, and it’s a fairly sexist opinion.
This book wasn’t for me.....

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Excellent book for anyone struggling with depression, self-esteem issues, envy or the like. Being able to break down and understand why one thinks or behaves the way we do, is always the first step to change. Emotions, outside influence, and other factors cause many of us to fall back into sometimes unhealthy patterns. This book gives an excellent look into the reasoning behind and ways to end a monotonous cycle, that many don't even realize they are pulling themselves back into.

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This book was hard to relate to and to get through. Seemed a bit dull to me. Would like more personal writing style.

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I didn't even make it though. I haven't had the best couple months and this focus on positive attitude and I just couldn't handle it. However the book is the is well written.

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The central premise of this book is worthwhile - we tend to draw unhappiness into our lives with certain patterns of negative thinking. But the book too often resorts to sexist or overly simplistic advice. I found it of limited usefulness for me.
My thanks to NetGalley for providing me with an eARC in exchange for my honest review.

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I'm really disappointed with some of the advises, I had high hopes for this book
sadly I won't recommend this to any one

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I like that the book centers on positivity. The past few months have been difficult for me due to deaths, illness and a difficult move. I noticed over the last month I have started to lose some of my enthusiasm, so I picked up a free digital copy of the book, graciously provided to me free from the publisher though NetGalley. The positivity reminders are great, but I can’t help but wish there had been more depth.

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I received this book from Netgalley to review.
I was curious about this book and really wanted to read it to find way to change some habits I may have that could be making me unhappy. The book went through twenty-eigth types of unhappiness and the ways to change these behaviours that cause them. Most of the book was very enlightening but parts of it I really did not agree with and felt that it was a little sexist on the part of the author. However, overall the book does have good suggestions for changing those habits that cause us to be unhappy in our lives.

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This book shows us twenty-eight types of unhappiness and shows us how to.change it. I liked most of this book, but there were parts I disagreed with. However, I think this is goid for those wanting to learn the causes of unhappiness and how to change it.

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Although I understand that many people are drawn to the unhappy - to live life with dark coloured glasses. I didn't quite find this book helpful in changing outlooks, and in fact, I can see how it could perpetuate being 'unhappy'. I am in no way unhappy in my life, I quite enjoy it! But I found this to bring me down a bit.

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The Unhappiness Syndrome starts off well by identifying an extremely important insight- that we can become subconsciously drawn to make ourselves unhappy. Most books will tell you, you are drawn to what makes you happy. What theydon't say is that the brain's version of attraction is to whatever you tell it is important. That's what 'it' defines as good which explains why people often do destructive things - because it makes their brain feel good even as their consciousness screams it is not! Unfortunately, I did not learn most of the aforementioned insight from this book. Two other books 'Addicted To Unhappiness' and 'The Answer Model' explain it far better. This book starts off well identifying areas in which you could be making yourself unhappy but about half-way through seems to devolve into generic self-help advice which is less insightful. All three books lack in the 'what to do about it' sections. So my recommendation is to study Neurosemantics by Michael Hall and especially his Meta Yes/No pattern - a belief change process that can (sometimes)get straight to the heart of stopping a destructive pattern.

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This short self-help book is organized like a reference book. Look up in the contents and find your particular brand of unhappiness and read to find a prescription. Unfortunately, the 25 types of unhappiness seem very boogie to me and the solutions feel like empty platitudes.

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