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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional (1 Mar 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0071385649
  • ISBN-13: 978-0071385640
  • Product Dimensions: 15.4 x 2.2 x 22.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 17,805 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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What's wrong with being a "people pleaser?" Plenty!

"A fascinating book... If you struggle with where, when, and how to draw the line between your own desires and the demands of others, buy this book!"­­Kay Redfield Jamison, bestselling author of An Unquiet Mind and Night Falls Fast

People pleasers are not just nice people who go overboard trying to make everyone happy. Those who suffer from the Disease to Please are people who say "Yes" when they really want to say "No." For them, the uncontrollable need for the elusive approval of others is an addiction. Their debilitating fears of anger and confrontation force them to use "niceness" and "people-pleasing" as self-defense camouflage.

Featured on NBC's "Today," The Disease to Please explodes the dangerous myth that "people pleasing" is a benign problem. Best-selling author and frequent "Oprah" guest Dr. Harriet Braiker offers clear, positive, practical, and easily do-able steps toward recovery.

Begin with a simple but revealing quiz to discover what type of people-pleaser you are. Then learn how making even small changes to any single portion of the Disease to Please Triangle - involving your thoughts, feelings, and behavior - will cause a dramatic, positive and long-lasting change to the overall syndrome.

As a recovered peoplepleaser, you will finally see that a balanced way of living that takes others into consideration but puts the emphasis first on pleasing yourself and gaining your own approval is the clearest path to health and happiness.

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What's wrong with being a "people pleaser?" Plenty!

"A fascinating book... If you struggle with where, when, and how to draw the line between your own desires and the demands of others, buy this book!"­­Kay Redfield Jamison, bestselling author of An Unquiet Mind and Night Falls Fast

People pleasers are not just nice people who go overboard trying to make everyone happy. Those who suffer from the Disease to Please are people who say "Yes" when they really want to say "No." For them, the uncontrollable need for the elusive approval of others is an addiction. Their debilitating fears of anger and confrontation force them to use "niceness" and "people-pleasing" as self-defense camouflage.

Featured on NBC's "Today," The Disease to Please explodes the dangerous myth that "people pleasing" is a benign problem. Best-selling author and frequent "Oprah" guest Dr. Harriet Braiker offers clear, positive, practical, and easily do-able steps toward recovery.

Begin with a simple but revealing quiz to discover what type of people-pleaser you are. Then learn how making even small changes to any single portion of the Disease to Please Triangle - involving your thoughts, feelings, and behavior - will cause a dramatic, positive and long-lasting change to the overall syndrome.

As a recovered peoplepleaser, you will finally see that a balanced way of living that takes others into consideration but puts the emphasis first on pleasing yourself and gaining your own approval is the clearest path to health and happiness.


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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This book I found very informative and had some good advice. It helps you realise that you do not always have to say yes in situations and that no is a word we should be using more. And that pleasing people especially when we dont actually want to do something is not a good thing but is detrimental to our health. I would recommend this book to all my people pleasing friends.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
It does not apply 15 Feb 2010
By Kattia
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The book relates mainly to workplace, ambitions, management - is very 'american' in its approach meaning - that it goes over the top and sometimes delves too deep in very simple work scenarios..and does not relate to familiar situations in everyday life somehow!

The book did state the obvious and pages going over the same material repeated throughout.

Returned the book.
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Uninspiring 13 Oct 2009
By minty
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Its a good title for a book, one that would appeal to many.

I am glad other people got a lot out of it, but i had a hard time understanding its significance. Perhaps because it stated the obvious, and didn't ask too many uncomfortable or fundamental questions. The book didn't seem to have anything original or genuinely insightful to say, in other words a bit superficial in that American self-help way. I found it also written in a rather wishy-washy uninspiring style.
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