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| View Larger Image | When Am I Going to Be Happy?: How to Break the Emotional Bad Habits That Make You Miserable | Mass Market Paperbackby Penelope Russianoff (Author)
| List Price: | $7.99 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Mass Market Paperback | | Publisher: | Bantam | | Page Count: | 304 Pages | | Publication Date: | November 01, 1989 | | Sales Rank: | 16,307th |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
Based on a popular course given at the New School in New York City, When Am I Going To Be Happy? teaches that many of the negative emotional habits that make us unhappy are learned behaviors which can be exchanged for habits that are life-giving, not life-wrecking. HC: Bantam. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 14 reviews)
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Men from Mars Women from Venus  3 Stars
September 16, 2009
Fundamentally, men and women have always thought differently, it has gone on since the beginning of time. Yet, if we took the time in the first place to know each others personality types, to have patience and understanding, instead of rushing into a relationship blindly.
This book has gone a long way to guide people in the right direction.
Nina Bagnall
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Buy this book!!! by L. Scharp  5 Stars
September 14, 2009
This is by far the best self help book I have ever read and can even imagine existing. I was having a rough patch, and bought 3 self help books from Amazon, I started one, it bored me, I moved to this, read it super fast, recommended it to everyone I know, and now feel like my other self help books don't even need to be read! This book is not boring like most, and it doesn't have a lot of boring and tedious exercises. It's a super easy read, entertaining and makes SO much sense!
These lessons should be taught in school. I've been seeing people on the street and thinking, "They need to read my book!" It addresses esteem issues, social issues, phobias, and on and on. The stuff in the book is quite easy to apply too. It's great. Get it. Get it for everyone you know who isn't perfectly happy. It changed my life in a way that I don't think many other self help books or even therapy could.
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Should be required reading. by D. L. Doyle (Tacoma, WA) 5 Stars
May 22, 2009
This book really should be required reading. Just reading it won't help you however, unless you apply the methods she outlines. I was a walking depressed, angry person until I read this book. My life hasn't been the same since. She describes how most people walk around thinking negative thoughts about themselves. Saying "I'm so fat. So clumsy, so stupid, so lousy, such a screw up etc." Even a little bit of this can be a cancer. Instead she says you should recognize you are human and praise yourself for every positive thing. No negative put down of yourself is healthy! This is the root of depression. She gives scenarios of real life people and described how she advised them on repairing their lives. Even now I still read it again and again, like a bible.
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Good information by Irunalone (Gulf Breeze, FL) 3 Stars
February 18, 2009
I liked this book as I found a lot of similarities in the actions of the people mentioned in the book and myself. It can get pretty wordy and redundant as the author drives a point home - but I finished actually remembering a lot of what was said.
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More of stories than actual cures by Christopher R. Nejfelt (Bristol, CT USA) 3 Stars
December 17, 2008
I bought this book to attempt to help myself out of, you guessed it, my bad habits. I tend to get jealous, angry, and extremely bitter during the course of a day, to the point where I start taking my rage out in the form of cold shoulders to my friends and family. So I bought this to help me attempt to fix this.
What I found is more of the author's actual patient's stories (under an annoymous name of course) than actual steps to fix my habits. For the Inferiority chapter, for example, the author explains how the patient had an abusive husband who put all of his faults on her, making her feel inferior. She goes on to tell how she overcame this. But I'm not her, I don't have an abusive husband, so I can't really connect to this example. And there's not much beyond that.
The author also is in a way using a broken record technique to enforce her advice on you. You read one chapter, then in the next, she basically states the main idea of the previous chapter and applies it to this one. It gets very repitious.
Call me mislead, but I thought this book would help me break my habits, not tell me how others visited a phychiatrist and overcame their own.
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