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Is there any good read for people with low self esteem and general anxiety?

I have some free time this week and I'd like to read a book, be about psychiatry or even self help stuff or any shit that can help.

any recomendations?

>> No.2319151

>>2319139
self-help books wont help you
pills will generate addiction

Taking the risk of sounding like a hippie, I'd recommend meditation or reading about the ego which ends in you not giving a shit about most of everyday things anymore

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2319162

Read about taoism. It makes me think about when to stress and when not to stress. It actually helped me a lot.

Just start with like... the tao of pooh. It's short and calming and nice. I hope it helps.

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2319165

how to win friends and influence people by dale carnegie

right?

>> No.2319166

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

>> No.2319171

read some french existentialists

they will knock the caring right the fuck out

>> No.2319176

>>2319162

I love this book. It's just ... nice.

>> No.2319192

>>2319151
Along those lines, I would recommend The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt. It talks a bit about, and recommends, pills (and their effects), meditation (and it's effects), and cognitive therapy. More importantly, though, he writes about how the mind works somewhat at odds with itself and how that causes anxiety, along with discussion basically about happiness and the general theories on how people try to attain it.

>>2319165
Not sure if joking, but that book is pretty solid. The name is terrible, but if OP suffers from "everything must think I'm terrible," Carnige really hammers in that people don't really give a shit about you, because (like you) they are mostly thing about them and theirs. (In a very non-cynical way, though.) It honestly changed my perspective in life.

>> No.2319194

>>2319151
Hey that's exactly what my doctor said, pills would only help for a little while and are addicting and i should take mediation, I tried yoga but shits boring as fuck and its imposible not to get distracted by the teacher's ass.

>>2319162
Thanks ill read it. I really respect chinese phylosophy.

>>2319166
Ill give that a read too, i absoutly love the ancient greco-roman world.

>> No.2319198

>>2319192
Thanks man I'll check them too.

>> No.2319225

the book of pook, find it in the rapidshare section.

>> No.2319265

I'm >>2319151
And seeing that you are willing to read about Tao, meditations and other stuff, I highly recommend that you get some books by Alan Watts. A good starter, I guess, would be "The Essence of Alan Watts" (a small recopilation that handles the ego, god, death, nothingness, time and other stuff) or his books about tao (which would really help you).

Good luck, OP.

>> No.2319292

>>2319151
>pills will generate addiction
And you people think youre smart