
Prescriptions Without Pills
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Have you ever wanted relief from feeling discouraged, worried, irritated, locked in habits that ultimately harm you? These negative states-depression, anxiety, anger and addictive habits-are the common colds of mental health. Like mild physical illnesses however, they can cause much distress and, if left untreated, can lead to worse difficulties.
Prescriptions Without Pills offers techniques for resolving the problems that have been provoking your uncomfortable emotions. Prescriptions guides you back to feeling good and then shows you how to sustain feelings of well-being.
Avoid the risk of negative side effects like weight gain and mental dullness that can result from taking pills to reduce your negative emotions. Instead implement these drug-free prescriptions. Use the prescriptions on your own or with help from a therapist.
Illustrated with engaging stories from the many clients Dr. Heitler has worked with in her forty-plus years as an internationally known psychologist and psychotherapy innovator, Prescriptions Without Pills aims to help you navigate the route back to well-being and learn skills that can help you to stay there.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: On Prescriptions, Pills, and How to Use This Book
- Why relief from negative feelings matters
- The prescriptions
- Why not pills?
- How to use this book
- Chapter 1 How You Feel and Why
- Rx 1.1: Treasure this Hand Map to guide your way.
- Rx 1.2: Self-diagnose your negative emotions.
- Rx 1.3: Regard emotional distress as helpful.
- Rx 1.4: Clarify the dilemmas in your life.
- Rx 1.5: Look further when external adversities appear overwhelming.
- Chapter 2 Depression
- Rx 2.1: Consider ten theories to understand depression more broadly.
- Rx 2.2: Appreciate how depression may protect you.
- Rx 2.3: Identify situations in which you have been tempted to fold.
- Rx 2.4: Alleviate depression with a Three P's visualization.
- Rx 2.5: Relieve childhood-based depression with That Was Then, This Is Now.
- Rx 2.6: Strengthen yourself with AGGRESS-N, eight natural antidepressants.
- Rx 2.7: Check for relationship factors that induce depression.
- Rx 2.8: Choose couples counseling for therapy if you are married.
- Rx 2.9: Handle grief and relationship endings without depression.
- Rx 2.10: Consider right-left prefrontal lobe energy-shifting.
- Chapter 3 Anger
- Rx 3.1: Clarify sixteen costs of anger and one core remedy.
- Rx 3.2: Rate your amygdala reactivity.
- Rx 3.3: Check for factors that fuel anger.
- Rx 3.4: Explore your anger triggers and models, then find better solutions.
- Rx 3.5: Regard anger as a stop sign.
- Rx 3.6: Design exit/re-entry plans to prevent arguments.
- Rx 3.7: Defuse anger with That Was Then, This Is Now.
- Rx 3.8: Identify what you do that invites anger in others.
- Rx 3.9: Release resentments about the past.
- Rx 3.10: Recognize narcissistic, borderline, paranoid, and bipolar anger.
- Chapter 4 Anxiety
- Rx 4.1: Recognize anxiety, then take three steps to alleviate it.
- Rx 4.2: Visualize anxiety: Where is the feeling within your body?
- Rx 4.3: Reduce anxiety with That Was Then, This Is Now.
- Rx 4.4: Choose from two calming options for anxiety surges.
- Rx 4.5: Minimize performance anxiety.
- Rx 4.6: Halt agitation over decisions.
- Rx 4.7: End worrying by seeking information.
- Rx 4.8: Think of panic attacks as Find the Butterfly puzzles.
- Rx 4.9: Alleviate chronic stress via three strategies.
- Rx 4.10: Remove intense anxiety and eliminate PTSD with EFT.
- Chapter 5 Addictions
- Rx 5.1: Recognize your self-injurious habits.
- Rx 5.2: Identify four stages in the journey from habits to addictions.
- Rx 5.3: Clarify the sources of your addictive habits.
- Rx 5.4: Ask the Six Questions to End Bad Habits.
- Rx 5.5: Learn from thumb-sucking, the earliest addiction.
- Rx 5.6: Build new habits instead of relying on willpower to resist the old.
- Rx 5.7: Become savvy about the addictive nature of electronic devices.
- Rx 5.8: Pay attention to marijuana use.
- Rx 5.9: Protect your marriage by regarding affairs as addictions.
- Rx 5.10: Cease the four habits that feed enabling and codependency.
- Chapter 6 Well-Being
- Rx 6.1: Note quickly when collaborative dialogue becomes adversarial.
- Rx 6.2: Activate Word Patrol to block words from the No-Fly List.
- Rx 6.3: Keep sensitive discussions safe with Six Safe Sentence Starters.
- Rx 6.4: Disagree agreeably with Triple-A.
- Rx 6.5: Generate good feelings by Emanating Positivity.
- Rx 6.6: Learn the Win-Win Waltz.
- Rx 6.7: Identify conflicts and decisions that need the Win-Win Waltz.
- Rx 6.8: Resolve inner conflicts with Do or Become.
- Rx 6.9: Heal together after upsetting incidents.
- Rx 6.10: Hold on to your Circle of Skills.
- Chapter 7 Look Back and Look Ahead
- Rx 7.1: Review the Hand Map and its basic assumptions.
- Rx 7.2: Write out your action plan.
- Rx 7.3: Enjoy well-being.
- Appendix A: Further Learning Resources from Dr. Heitler
- Books
- Articles
- Audio programs
- Videos
- Online
- Appendix B: How to Choose a Therapist
- Endnotes
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