Women Who Think Too Much: How to Break Free of Overthinking and Reclaim Your Life
Written by Susan Nolen-Hoeksema
Narrated by Sheryl Bernstein
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From one of the nation's preeminent experts in the study of women and emotion, a breakthrough new book based on the author's award-winning research
It's not a surprise that our fast-paced, overly analytical culture is pushing people—especially women—to spend countless hours thinking about negative ideas, feelings, and experiences. Renowned psychologist Dr. Susan Nolen-Hoeksema calls this "overthinking." 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 big questions such as "What am I doing with my life?" to losing sleep over a friend's innocent comment. It is causing women to feel sad, anxious, or seriously depressed, and she challenges the assumption that constantly expressing and analyzing our emotions is a good thing.
In Women Who Think Too Much, Nolen-Hoeksema provides concrete strategies that can be used to escape these negative thoughts, move to higher ground, and avoid future traps.
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, PhD, is the author of the bestselling Women Who Think Too Much and Eating, Drinking, Overthinking. A professor of psychology at Yale University, she has conducted award-winning research on women’s mental health for twenty-five years. She and her research have been profiled on the Today show and in The New York Times. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Reviews for Women Who Think Too Much
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book hits on some good points, but could probably come with a trigger warning. Detailed accounts of Alzheimers, being diagnosed with breast cancer, having a partner die from brain cancer, sexual assault rumination - it’s all there read to you by a sing-song whispering librarian voice. I’m not sure I’ve ever cried from a self-help book until this one.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Good book but I do not like the abridge version of it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book made me think about the choices I make as a woman and gave me a good prospective of how our way of thinking can be generated. I recommend this to all women. It could save your life?
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was a nice short listen with practical examples and means of working through overthinking that were actually plausible
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Was looking for more of science oriented view, but got self-help with a scientific basis instead. Mildly interesting, especially if perseverating is an issue for you. Sort of got bogged down in case studies. Certain of the basic premises were worth a look: "overthinking" is a modern malaise and a female one for the most part. Overthinking is ruminating way too much over things that do not go right in one's life. The author's belief is that this is a natural function of the way the brain works in creating cognitive webs as well as the female tendency to be more connected and attuned to one's emotions. All this is amplified by the modern tendency to be unconnected socially or self-centered, to feel entitled to have all we desire (and deserve), and the failure to come to grips with the fact that, yes, sometimes life sucks. Her research has shown that the older generations (the ones who lived through world wars, the depression, the dust bowl, etc. etc.) tend to take a deep breath and just get on with it. Of course, as she points out, they had much larger support systems, cohesive families, and an agreed upon values system. That helps. What the author does do is offer some methods for dealing with circular thinking that are worthwhile and very much in tune with cognitive therapy.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An interesting self-help book which is not only for women. I recognized many of the symptoms about endless-thinking that she describes from my personal experience, I even found that some of the tips I've already successfully used at one time or another. I can recommend this book wholeheartedly to anyone who tends to think endlessly about all kinds of things whilst getting ever the more depressed and desperate.