Starting Over Again
System Restore Yourself
by John Douglas Pritchard

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Do you have any disappointments in your life?  Do you experience any depression? Do you have feelings of doubt or regret over the way your life has turned out? Do you feel like you’ve been abandoned?  Do you feel like nobody cares about you anymore? Have you been sexually abused?  Was there someone in your life that took advantage of you sexually?  Do you harbor feelings of guilt or shame? Did your Social Developmental skills get hindered as a result of all these things that have happened to you? Has your belief system that you were taught as a child changed at all as a result of the things that you have had to adapt to?  Did you have any competitive siblings in your family as you were being raised?  Were you a “Bedwetter?”  Feelings of being misunderstood and not being able to find the right words to explain yourself because you’re still trying to figure things out for yourself.   Do you have Suicidal Thoughts?  Have you ever thought “Am I good enough?”  Do you have low self Esteem? Do you find yourself Giving Up too easily? Have you or do you abuse Drugs and Alcohol to help take off the stress or use it to mask your pain and hide your feelings?  Do you live a dangerous lifestyle?  IE: Drive faster than you should? Do you make bad decisions due to carelessness? Have you found yourself lashing out or finding it hard to manage your anger?  We are going to deal with all these issues and more to help you take back control of your life.

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Hello, I’m John Douglas Pritchard, I hope you get a lot out of this book. I am not a doctor nor am I a physician or a therapist, I have no credentials or accolades to say otherwise, but what I do have is experience.  I have personally experienced many of these issues in my life as you will realize after reading the first few chapters. I had to learn from those experiences and crawl out of those predicaments by myself.  There were no self-help books for many of the subjects I am covering in this book.  There were some self-help books on anxiety in the early 80’s that I did read about and learn from but most of the information I share in this book about anxiety came from personal experience. I developed the sticky notes exercise over a period of time to help myself find a way to get control of what was in my head so that it couldn't control me anymore.  I took back my control like a person does when they do a system restore of their computer.  I thought why can’t I do the same thing with my brain and after some time I discovered a way to do it. Everything else about me that you might be curious about, you will discover reading about me in the first few chapters.  After that you will learn many things and do some exercises that will help you regain control of your life.  You will system restore yourself.

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