Introduction |
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A Serious Note About Humour |
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How This Book Is Organised |
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Part I Pinpointing Primary Principles |
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Part II Pinning Down Problems and Giving Yourself Goals |
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Part III Putting CBT into Practice |
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Part IV Forging into the Future |
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Case Examples Used in This Book |
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Part I Pinpointing Primary Principles |
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Chapter 1 Exploring the Basics of CBT |
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Understanding the Nuts and Bolts of CBT |
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Blinding you with the science of CBT |
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Linking thinking and feeling |
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Attaching meaning to events |
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Checking How CBT Can Work for You |
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Breaking down your behaviours |
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Connecting Emotion, Thinking, and Behaviour |
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Picturing Your Problems as a Simple A-B-C |
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Chapter 2 Recognising Problematic Thinking Patterns |
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Getting to Grips with Common Thinking Errors |
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Listing Your Personal Favourites |
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Knowing Where and When You Think Your Way to Trouble |
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Chapter 3 Taking Toxic Thinking In Hand |
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Noticing Your Negative Thinking |
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Being Sceptical about Your Negative Automatic Thoughts |
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Finishing off with A-B-C Form II |
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Trying Out Alternative Thoughts |
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Helping Yourself with Homework |
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Chapter 4 Experiencing Experiments |
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Seeing Things Like a Scientist |
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Executing excellent experiments |
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Putting predictions to the test |
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Finding out which theory works best |
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Conducting a self-help survey |
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Writing Down Your Results |
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Chapter 5 Where's Your Head At? Controlling Your Concentration |
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Training Yourself in Task Concentration |
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Making Your Mind More Mindful |
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Getting off the thought train |
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Identifying when to ignore yourself |
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Part II Pinning Down Problems and Giving Yourself Goals |
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Chapter 6 Getting Emotional |
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Expanding Your Emotional Vocabulary |
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Understanding the Anatomy of Emotions |
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Working Out Whether Your Feelings Are Healthy or Unhealthy |
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Taking note of your thinking |
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Being aware of your behaviour |
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Finding out what you focus on |
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Avoiding being fooled by physical feelings |
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Charting Your Problem Emotions |
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Identifying themes and triggers |
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Making a problem statement |
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Chapter 7 Targeting Troublesome Tactics |
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Identifying Self-Defeating Strategies |
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Demanding control and insisting on certainty |
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Adding up avoidance and getting yourself down |
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When Feeling Better Stops You from Getting Better |
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Cease self-medicating your mood |
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Requesting reassurance and seeking safety |
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Putting Petals on Your Vicious Flower |
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Uprooting your vicious flower |
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Flaying that flower until it's dead |
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Chapter 8 Getting Goal-Directed |
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Giving Goals a SPORTing Chance |
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Structuring your goal statements |
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Manufacturing More Motivation |
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Writing up reasons for change |
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Carrying out a cost-benefit analysis |
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Part III Putting CBT into Practice |
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Chapter 9 Taking an Axe To Anxiety |
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Philosophies that Fend Off Fear |
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Surfing bodily sensations |
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Being realistic about the probability of bad events |
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Bringing bad events back into perspective |
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Challenging yourself to a duel |
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Preparing your exposure plan |
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Searching Out Your Safety Behaviours |
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Ways Out Of Wearisome Worry |
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Chapter 10 Attacking Addictive Behaviours and Attitudes |
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Acknowledging Addiction Antecedents |
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Acquiring Alternative Activities |
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Working Out Why Dropping Your DOC is Worth It |
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Reducing the Risk of Relapse |
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Chapter 11 Being Better Friends with Your Body |
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Getting to Grips with Poor Body Image |
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Finding out how you feel about your appearance |
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Dealing with Poor Body Image Ponderings and Practices |
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Adopting More Accurate Body Image Attitudes |
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Promoting Positive Body Image Practices |
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Having a Look at the Whole Package |
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Harnessing a holistic outlook |
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Showing a little appreciation |
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Giving your body a grain of gratitude |
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Implementing Healthy Home Improvements |
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Chapter 12 Dealing a Blow to Depression |
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Deciding whether You're Depressed |
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Reckoning with Rumination |
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Actively Attacking Your Depression |
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Chapter 13 Overcoming Obsessions and Cutting Out Compulsions |
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Observing Obsessive Behaviour |
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Discovering body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) |
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Highlighting health anxiety |
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Checking out compulsive behaviours |
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Assessing and Acting Against Obsessional Attitudes |
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Pitting Theory A against Theory B |
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Realistically appraising responsibility |
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Steering in the right direction |
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Checking out and changing your termination criteria |
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Recording and resisting rituals |
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Chapter 14 Lifting Low Self-Esteem |
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Acquiring Self-Acceptance |
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Realising reasons not to rate yourself |
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Leaving behind loathsome labelling |
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Feeling fine about human fallibility |
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Using the best friend technique |
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Accepting and Improving Yourself at the Same Time |
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Selecting specific areas for self-improvement |
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Embracing personal responsibility |
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Regularly Reviewing Reasons for Self-Acceptance |
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Chapter 15 Maintaining Relationships |
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Recognising healthy anger |
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Seeing aspects of unhealthy anger |
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Counting the Cost of Losing Your Cool |
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Embracing Effective Assertion |
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Putting Yourself on a Par with Your Peers |
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Part IV Forging into the Future |
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Chapter 16 Examining and Changing Long-Standing Beliefs |
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Uncovering Your Core Beliefs |
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Sorting out the three types of core beliefs |
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Bringing past relationships into the light of the present |
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Catching your core beliefs interacting |
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Digging Up Your Core Beliefs |
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Creating Constructive Core Beliefs |
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Assigning New Meanings to Old Events |
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Chapter 17 Consolidating Conviction in New Core Beliefs |
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Spotlighting Beliefs You Want to Strengthen |
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Preparing a Portfolio of Persuasive Arguments |
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If At First You Don't Succeed, Try and Try Again |
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Digging out and defeating doubts |
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Practising what you preach |
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Considering what you'd want your child to believe |
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Nurturing Nice New Beliefs |
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Chapter 18 Delving into Personal Development |
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Being Realistic about Relapse |
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Getting Back to Your Personal Values and Hobbies |
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Reinstating personally significant practices |
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Looking At Your Lifestyle |
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Going Boldly Where You've Not Gone Before |
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Chapter 19 Rupturing Roadblocks to Recovery |
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Exorcising Emotions that Bind You |
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Refusing to play the shame game |
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Paralysing problematic pride |
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Letting Others Help to Bear the Burden |
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Chapter 20 Putting into Practice Principles of Positive Living |
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Receiving Your Ration of Responsibility |
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Finding that Flexibility Feeds Fun |
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Understanding Uncertainty and Lack of Control as Unavoidable |
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Taking Risks and Making Mistakes |
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Choosing Self-Acceptance Over Other-Approval |
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Chapter 21 Ten Tips for Working with Professionals |
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Choosing the Right Therapy for You |
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Knowing Who's Who in the Psychology World |
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Asking the Right Questions |
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Looking in the Best Places for a Therapist |
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Vetting Your CBT (or other) Therapist |
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Remaining Open Minded About Medication |
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Working on Stuff Between Sessions |
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Discussing Issues During Sessions |
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Preparing Prior to Sessions |
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Chapter 22 Ten Tips for Getting a Good Night's Sleep |
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Wear Yourself Out with Exercise |
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Don't Lie in Bed Tossing and Turning |
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Monitor Your Caffeine and Stimulant Intake |
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Cozy Up Your Sleeping Area |
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Shed a Little Light on the Subject |
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Set Sensible Sleep Expectations |
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Leave Your Cares at the Bedroom Door |
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Chapter 23 Ten Reasons to Never Give Up |
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Setbacks Are Not Exceptional |
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Recovery Requires Practice, Patience, and Persistence |
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Small Achievements Add Up |
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You Have Value in the World |
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You May Feel Differently Tomorrow |
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You Can Always Try Other Options |
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Talking to Others Often Helps |
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Change is an On-going Process |
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Index |
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