The Disease to Please by Harriet Braiker

The Disease to Please Harriet Braiker ebook
Format: pdf
Page: 288
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
ISBN: 9780071385640

In actuality, the “disease to please” is a compulsive — even addictive — behavior pattern in which you feel controlled by your need to please others, and addicted to their approval. The challenge with being the nice guy is that a lot of them run a pattern called the 'disease to please', where the focus is on making everyone happy. €I had the disease to please. Gina said she threw herself into her work to try and make up for the fact that she felt like a failure because of her weight. We do ourselves a lot of harm trying to fit in with others and become who we think they want us to be, just to be loved. But, there is a fine line between being depended on and being dumped on. It's about standing up for yourself, letting people know your limits and teaching people how to treat you. In her best-selling book, psychologist-author Harriet Braiker called it, The Disease to Please.[1] This disease can plague those in Christian ministry. The weight just all came back,” she said. The stress of the Holidays can be challenging for a healthy person but for someone with a chronic illness it can be devastating if we do not manage our stress. We all want to be wanted and needed, and the 'disease to please' can be tough to discard. Setting boundaries is about curing the disease to please.