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The Disease to Please Harriet Braiker
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The

The stress of the Holidays can be challenging for a healthy person but for someone with a chronic illness it can be devastating if we do not manage our stress. And how much of the time-related stress in our lives comes from trying to accommodate every single person who wants a piece of our day? This book explodes the dangerous myth that "people pleasing" is a benign problem. The Disease to Please: Curing the People-Pleasing Syndrome by Harriet B. Thanks to the late Harriet Braiker, though, I've got some tools to address the issue. Let's just say I found a few tidbits in there for myself and for others I knew. In a desire to be likeable and friendly, we can become overly concerned with the need to please others. This condition is more popularly referred to as the “disease to please.” When Friendship Goes Awry. My wife may burst into uproarious laughter when she reads this, and I've struggled at times with excessive people pleasing. In her best-selling book, psychologist-author Harriet Braiker called it, The Disease to Please.[1] This disease can plague those in Christian ministry. Those who suffer from the disease to please are people who say “Yes” when they really want to say “No”. Braiker's first book (that I read) was The Type E Woman (for the woman who tries to be everything to everyone). Patricks Day Do You Suffer From 'The Disease To Please This past weekend was St. It worked for me as I grew, but once I left the nest, it turned into the not so rewarding need to please.