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Unf*ck Your Brain

Using Science to Get over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers

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Unf*ck Your Brain

Written by: Faith G. Harper PhD
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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 non-emergencies of everyday life, and to deal effectively with old, or newly acquired, traumas (particularly post-traumatic stress disorder).

©2017 Faith G. Harper (P)2017 Microcosm Publishing
Mental Health Personal Development Personal Success Popular Culture Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Social Sciences Stress Management Health Human Brain Witty Inspiring Meditation Mathematics Medicine Emotions Business Depression Self Help
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lot of pointless new words, subpar naration, promotion of unscientific methods, most of content good, but better book on market for that

sciencless and cringe

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The audio quality really compromised the content of this book. The woo was a bit much, and the language did need some tempering.

Some good content

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OVERALL RATING WAS REQUIRED TO SUBMIT THIS REVIEW. I HAVE NOT FINISHED THE BOOK.

I haven't listened to the book yet, but the quality is brutal. I'm going to try and get a refund. I've listened to a lot of Audible - and this is the only bad one.

The audio quality is awful.

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The content was interesting and I am comfortable with crude delivery but it felt forced. On top of the poor recording mix, very metallic and echoey, the constant swearing felt fake versus swearing for effect. Very distracting.

Tries too hard to show she can swear

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I need to preface this with something important:
I am a world-class curser.
If swearing were an Olympic event, I’d have multiple gold medals and a Wheaties box.

So imagine my shock when this book somehow managed to out-swear me.
Not naturally.
Not charmingly.
Not even aggressively.

Just… compulsively.

Listening to this audiobook felt like being trapped in an elevator with someone who learned the word “fuck” yesterday and is determined to use it until the oxygen runs out. At first, I thought it was a stylistic choice. By hour two, I genuinely wondered if her microphone had a Tourette’s setting she forgot to turn off.

There is good material in here — but it’s buried under such a relentless avalanche of forced profanity that it starts to feel like performance art. Halfway through, I wasn’t absorbing information anymore. I was taking bets with myself on whether she’d break her personal record for F-bombs per sentence.

Spoiler:
She does. Constantly. With pride.

It’s like she wrote this book trying to impress a fictional group of 14-year-olds who vape behind a gas station. I kept waiting for a coherent explanation of trauma, but what I got instead was a five-hour linguistic drinking game where the only rule is TAKE A SHOT EVERY TIME SHE SAYS "FUCK" AND THEN DIE.

By the end, I didn’t need therapy — I needed subtitles, a quiet room, and a hazmat suit for my ears.

Great concepts, buried alive under a vocabulary that never made it past Grade 3.

A Masterclass in How to Beat a Single Word to Death

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