Thriving with Heart Disease: The Leading Authority on the Emotional Effects of Heart Disease Tells You and Your Family How to Heal and Reclaim Your

By Wayne M. Sotile

Book Overview

Not only can you survive with heart disease, you can actually thrive with it -- for many, many years to come.
If you are one of the 61 million Americans diagnosed with heart disease -- whether you've had a heart attack or surgery, or you have high blood pressure or angina -- you can learn how to handle its psychological side effects with the lifesaving strategies in this book.
Acclaimed cardiac psychologist Wayne M. Sotile, Ph.D., reveals what every heart patient needs to know: how you feel about the illness and how you cope with it can determine how fully you recover. Dr. Sotile teaches you how to achieve emotional well-being over the four basic stages of recovery, during which you and your family learn to accept the disease, grasp what's involved in treatment and recovery, and learn to work together as a team. You will also learn to create and adapt to a "new normal" way of life and make a commitment to living with the illness, not in spite of it.
Written with reassuring warmth, sensitivity, and humor, Thriving with Heart Disease is your guide to creating the robust, healthy life you were meant to lead, surrounded by the people you love.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074324365X
• ISBN13: 9780743243650
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Thriving with Heart Disease

Awesome buy. Answers any question you might have regarding your heart health. I work in an outpatient cardiac rehab dept and we give these books to our patients.

great resource

I work in a busy cardiac rehab and highly recommend this book to anyone struggling with their recovery from a heart event. It offers simple explanations of what is normal and when to seek help. Suitable for both professionals and lay people.