Women Who Think Too Much: How to break free of overthinking and reclaim your life

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Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, psychologist and writer, helped explain why women are twice as prone to depression as men and why such low moods can be so hard to shake. Dr. Nolen-Hoeksema, a professor at Yale University, began studying depression in the 1980s.

The brains of depressed people look different to non-depressed people- oh this must mean faulty brains caused depression.How does the concept of a nemesis, on the job or in a social context, fit in with the book's assertions about "if only" thinking? And many times, we likely listened. Because when everyone around us is telling us we’re too this or that, it’s hard to not believe, isn’t it? Knyga apie įprotį, būdingą nemažai daliai moterų - "overthinking", išverstą kaip "besaikis analizavimas". Think about it: where did those around you learn those messages themselves? At some level in this society we’re all conditioned to believe that being “too much” as a woman is a Bad Thing. Hearing that you’re “too much” from your family/friends/coworkers/lovers is as much a political issue as it is a personal issue.

It pulls factual evidence on women's pay, women's rights etc. and states it as the cause for depression or overthinking. I could do that with anything, oh women eat porridge for breakfast, the porridge must be causing the overthinking.The first part of chapter one mentions the unprecedented growth in independence and opportunities experienced by women over the past forty years as well as the fact that women are twice as likely as men to become severely depressed or anxious. In your experience, have the liberating legal and societal changes of the late twentieth century simultaneously created new constraints for women? It's no surprise that our fast-paced, overly self-analytical culture is pushing many people-especially women-to spend countless hours thinking about negative ideas, feelings, and experiences. Renowned psychologist Dr. Susan Nolen-Hoeksema calls this overthinking, and her groundbreaking research shows that an increasing number of women-more than half of those in her extensive study-are doing it too much and too often, hindering their ability to lead a satisfying life. Overthinking can be anything from fretting about the big questions such as "What am I doing with my life?" to losing sleep over a friend's innocent comment. It is causing many women to end up sad, anxious, or seriously depressed, and Nolen-Hoeksema challenges the assumption-heralded by so many pop-psychology pundits of the last several decades-that constantly expressing and analyzing our emotions is a good thing. I was given this book to borrow and read because it just simply transformed my best friend's life. My life, however, was not erratically changed like I was told it would be. Though, it definitely impacted me on a level that made me grateful to have read it at all. Women Conquering Depression: How to Gain Control of Eating, Drinking, and Overthinking and Embrace a Healthier Life [14] 2006, Henry Holt

The result: women will come away from this book knowing that they have a lean, mean, communicating machine. Men will develop a serious case of brain envy. From 1986 to 1995, she was a faculty member at Stanford University receiving tenure in 1993. From 1995 to 2004 she was a tenured professor at the University of Michigan in the Personality Area. From 2004 to 2013, Nolen-Hoeksema was a professor and researcher at Yale, as well as the head of the Yale Depression and Cognition Program. [6]Da ne zapocnem Novu s "repom" ova knjiga je procitana, ali da sam nesto ekstra doznala o rjesavanju problema pretjeranog razmisljanja i nisam.. Samo hrpu novih ideja za "vjezbanje" mozga! :P This book spends a very short time giving solutions, and an incredibly long time illustrating stories of other women who overthink. This article has brought me great comfort after some words said this morning, i am the only person who can be me, why brighten my shine, all of my friends and the love of my life that past within the last year, loved me entirely even on my cripplingly bad days, those were the people there for me, my CHOSEN family, I was NEVER too much for them. Nolen-Hoeksema, Susan; Davidian, Haraton; Jahangiri, Hamideh (2018). Depression: Treatment and Management. Lap Lambert. ISBN 978-613-9-99560-8.