Hooked on Unhappiness / Cannon, Carol, MA, CADC / (PB/2007-2007/B+/USED)

*Condition Note: Book is clean and gently used with minimal cover wear.*

Are you a certifiable negaholic? If so, this book could change your life. Answer these few questions: 1. Do you find yourself in a bad mood more often than not? 2. Are you critical of everyone and everything around you? 3. Do you dwell on painful memories? 4. Do you have a negative perspective of global proportions? 5. When someone says, “Good morning,” do you think, What’s good about it? If so, this book is for you! You are a negaholic. Author Carol Cannon once caught herself thinking that God had singled her out to carry a heavier-than-average burden because He knew she could handle it! When she finally woke up and smelled her superior attitude, she was mortified. Workaholism, caretaking, and control had become a self-perpetuating cycle. By the age of forty-five she was, in her own words, “toast—burned out from overwork and overworry.” She knew she needed to change, but she couldn’t. She was a certified alcohol and drug counselor by then, but she didn’t recognize her own behavior as addictive. She had a martyr monkey on her back. Actually, it was a giant gorilla—King Kong with a shave. That was twenty years ago. The physician-cure-thyself method didn’t work. Attempting to ratchet up her faith to impress the Almighty and praying harder didn’t work either. Nor did reading every self-help book on the market. The more she tried to control her behavior the more she lost control. Negaholism undermined her character, sabotaged valued relationships, and subverted her spirituality. She had to admit defeat. She didn’t realize it then, but that was the first step in her recovery.

CONTENTS

Introduction

Confessions of a Workaholic Worrywart

Martyrs and Other Assorted Addicts

Exactly What is a Negaholic?

What Martyrs Do Best

The Making of a Misery Addict

Brain Chemistry for People Who Don't Have Doctorates

Marital Martyring: The Holy Mother/Bad Boy Syndrome

Martyring by Caregiving

The Fine Art of Overdoing Everything

A Field Guide to Whining and Complaining

Breaking the Cycle of Worry and Woe

The Twelve Steps Aren't for People Who Don't Need Them

We Do Recover!

The Truth Will Set You Free

Where the Rubber Meets the Road

And When We Have Come to Ourselves

Appendix A: Twenty Questions for Negaholics

Appendix B: An Exhaustive (and Exhausting) List of Things to Worry or Be Miserable About

Appendix C: A Little List of Martyring Behaviors

Appendix D: How to Distinguish Abstinence From Acting Out

Appendix E: The Eight Stages of Human Development

Appendix F: How to Handle Chronic Complainers

Appendix G: Twelve-Step Recovery Organizations

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