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

It's about standing up for yourself, letting people know your limits and teaching people how to treat you. Years ago, I remember an old boyfriend telling me up front ….within the first few months of dating… that “I am a Pleaser.” He told me like it was some kind of identity badge. There's a book called The Disease to Please by Harriet Braiker, PhD. In talking with a reporter the other day she mentioned that women are often handicapped by the “disease to please,” a term I had never heard before. I was unclear if he was proud of it or just warning me. In the book she says that people pleasers are addicts. If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you, my dear, have the disease to please. Trying to please people is a disease, or a sickness. A simple Curing the Disease to Please is one step in a 6-step formula I created along with yoga psychologist Ashley Turner. Setting boundaries is about curing the disease to please.