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Anybody ever find a self help book that actually worked for them?

Paul

I suspect that most don't because they are for neurotypical people. 

Over the years I have read so many with few making any difference.  We (my wife and I) have changed our lifestyle a bit because of Dr Rangan Chatterjee's books but that is more to do with diet, eating and sleeping.  However, any books on changing how you think or deal with other people or cope with depression/destructive thinking, never seem to do much.

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  • No, they always seem very superficial and they tend to come in waves, riding trends, which is always suspicious to me. I have found the best insight into other people and 'the human condition' come from novels. As they often describe the 'inner life'.

    Some of the ones I have found useful, and entertaining, in no particular order:  

    'Dubliners', and also 'Ulysses', James Joyce, 'Lord of the Flies', William Golding, 'Catcher in the Rye', JD Salinger, 'Fahrenheit 451', Ray Bradbury, 'Slaughterhouse 5', Kurt Vonnegut,, 'Middlemarch', George Eliot, 'Stoner', John Williams. 'The Plague', Albert Camus, 'Steppenwolf', Herman Hesse.

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  • No, they always seem very superficial and they tend to come in waves, riding trends, which is always suspicious to me. I have found the best insight into other people and 'the human condition' come from novels. As they often describe the 'inner life'.

    Some of the ones I have found useful, and entertaining, in no particular order:  

    'Dubliners', and also 'Ulysses', James Joyce, 'Lord of the Flies', William Golding, 'Catcher in the Rye', JD Salinger, 'Fahrenheit 451', Ray Bradbury, 'Slaughterhouse 5', Kurt Vonnegut,, 'Middlemarch', George Eliot, 'Stoner', John Williams. 'The Plague', Albert Camus, 'Steppenwolf', Herman Hesse.

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