Unfuck Your Brain: Getting Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers with science (5-Minute Therapy)

by Faith G. Harper

Series: 5-Minute Therapy

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Average rating	Mentions
346	8	79,465	(3.33)	1
Psychology. Self-Improvement. Nonfiction. HTML: A no-nonsense and helpful guide on how to cope with a slew of mental-health issues that are hell-bent on ruining the lives of millions of people worldwide Our brains do their best to help us out, but every so often they can be real assholes?having meltdowns, getting addicted to things, or shutting down completely at the worst possible moments. Your brain knows it's not good to do these things, but it can't help it sometimes?especially if it's obsessing about trauma it can't overcome. That's where this life-changing book comes in. With humor, patience, science, and lots of good-ole swearing, Dr. Faith explains what's going on in your skull, and talks you through the process of retraining your brain to respond appropriately to the nonemergencies of everyday life, and to deal effectively with old, or newly acquired, traumas (particularly post-traumatic stress disorder). .… (more)

all members

▾Members

Recently added by

amandabondie0925, AKSLibrary, chamomeleon, jennybeast, nataliemuyres, ChristmasD, johncbeynon, b.rehm, marzostatic

▾Tags

▾LibraryThing Recommendations

▾Lists

None

▾Will you like it?

▾Conversations (About links)

No current Talk conversations about this book.

» See also 1 mention

▾Member reviews

date ▼ | votes

Showing 1-5 of 8 (next | show all)

This is an incredibly helpful and affirming book. I listened to the audio version, and there's a lot, so I'm likely going to listen to it again. Breaks down how brain biochemistry affects our behavior and ways to work on re-wiring it, in a delightfully flippant and approachable way. Unfortunately, the audio production level is very poor -- it sounds like she's recording in a cave, but it's worth ignoring that for the good information the book imparts. (

)

jennybeast | Dec 19, 2024 |

The only reason this book is popular is because the use of the taboo work F*ck! It is very known from a psychological aspect that the use of dirty taboo words can and will elicit positive and/or negative emotions vehemently in our brain.

In this example, the book title has made more adults snicker like kids buying this book because of the title alone; however, the content in the book was lacking and underwhelming to help those who are in real need.
(

)

GeauxGetLit | May 27, 2023 |

This is a good beginner's book for getting into the self-improvement mindset and approach. With this book, you can understand just how our brains are wired, and how they can start to be rewired. It seemed like Dr. Harper was trying a bit too hard to be cool or edgy, using (even for me) an obscene amount of obscenities and slang to get her point across... or maybe she really acts that way. But, the overall messages were delivered well enough. (

)

kristilabrie | Oct 19, 2022 |

There are some logical concepts here. I don't mind cussing, but sometimes it seems gimmicky. She could say the same things without a random F-bomb. It seemed forced rather than a natural flow of words. I think that was the turn-off. It was forced language rather than conversational. However, her concept of treating the trauma and that trauma isn't always the same for everyone was great. I will probably listen to more of her books. (

)

GhostDuchess | Apr 8, 2022 |

The advice in this book was good, but it is horribly written. The audio version doesn't help as the quality is atrocious. (

)

SeekingApatheia | Apr 13, 2021 |

date ▼ | votes

Showing 1-5 of 8 (next | show all)

▾Published reviews

no reviews | add a review

▾Other authors

» Add other authors

▾Series and work relationships

Belongs to Series

5-Minute Therapy

▾Awards and Honors

view history

▾Common Knowledge

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Canonical title

Original title

Alternative titles

Original publication date

People/Characters

Important places

Important events

Related movies

Epigraph

Dedication

First words

Quotations

Last words

Disambiguation notice

Publisher's editors

Blurbers

Original language

Canonical DDC/MDS

Canonical LCC

▾References

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English

None

▾Book descriptions

Psychology. Self-Improvement. Nonfiction. HTML:

A no-nonsense and helpful guide on how to cope with a slew of mental-health issues that are hell-bent on ruining the lives of millions of people worldwide

Our brains do their best to help us out, but every so often they can be real assholes?having meltdowns, getting addicted to things, or shutting down completely at the worst possible moments. Your brain knows it's not good to do these things, but it can't help it sometimes?especially if it's obsessing about trauma it can't overcome. That's where this life-changing book comes in.

With humor, patience, science, and lots of good-ole swearing, Dr. Faith explains what's going on in your skull, and talks you through the process of retraining your brain to respond appropriately to the nonemergencies of everyday life, and to deal effectively with old, or newly acquired, traumas (particularly post-traumatic stress disorder).

▾Library descriptions

No library descriptions found.

▾LibraryThing members' description

Book description

Haiku summary