Coping with Anxiety: 10 Simple Ways to Relieve Anxiety, Fear & Worry
Coping with Anxiety: 10 Simple Ways to Relieve Anxiety, Fear & Worry
Anxiety affects 25 million people in the United States, and treatment can be difficult and daunting. Coping with Anxiety takes a sensible, clinically based approach by teaching ten simple steps to overcoming the problem and maintaining an anxiety-free life. The tips range from “Thinking realistically” to “Taking constructive coping actions” and include friendly exercises for combating a particular aspect of anxiety. In the first chapter, for example, readers learn how to deal with physical symptoms by mastering three essential relaxation techniques. Each strategy provides something the reader can do in the moment. An afterword on medication is included.
User Ratings and Reviews
3 Stars Great for anxiety in general but not much help for specific anxiety disorders
Like the title says its great if you want to look at your anxiety in general but its not for a specific anxiety disorder
3 Stars Not a bad book.
On the plus side this book does give 10 things you can do to combat anxoety. On the negative side they are common knowledge type advice with meditation and what not. Objectively the techniques were very well explained and detailed. Subjectively the author says he isn’t dogmatic yet he calls positive self talk ‘new age crap’. Self talk is the number one way I keep anxiety from becoming a full blown panic attack so I really don’t know if the author truely dismisses a powerfull coping tool or he is just simply refering to something like the Stewart Smally character on SNL and did a poor job defining what exactly he was refering.
By Smally I meant the wuss who stares at himself in the full length mirror and tells himself how special he truely is.
5 Stars Very Very Helpful
This is a very good book. It gives you everything you need to know and do in 10 easy steps. I have read many books on anxiety and all the advice boils down to what is written in this book. I believe it to be the most valuable book that I have gotten on anxiety so far. It does not replace what one on one therapy provides because people with anxiety always want to know how they got their problems to begin with. Once that is answered with the aid of a therapist, this book will help you on the road to recovery.
5 Stars Concise, simple and helpful
This is a very good book for coping with anxiety. It delivers what the subtitle promises: 10 simple ways to relieve anxiety,fear and worry. The author acknowledges throughout, that simple is not necesarily easy. Though the ten tips are simple, they do take concerted committment and effort to put into practice. I like this book so much that I recommended it as The Book of the Month in one of my recent newsletters to my subscribers. Kate
5 Stars Ten Steps to Greater Peace of Mind
This book wastes no time in cutting to the chase — the physical symptoms of anxiety. No head-tripping — just bare-bones exercises designed to put you in charge of your body’s response to anxiety-producing situations.
The chapters have clear, simple titles — tasks designed to put the reader in a positive frame of mind; all practical solutions that make good common sense.
For those with more severe forms of anxiety and panic disorder, this book does not attempt to replace therapy.. However, according to the author, “It can be helpful to identify possible causes of anxiety and address them, [but] you don’t need to know why you feel anxious to be helped by practicing coping strategies.”
So peace of mind is achievable with practice, according to the author, but regular practice is essential in order to develop and refine the mindset. This book is like a trustworthy roadmap — you still have to do the driving, of course, but it will help you get there.
Sarah Shikitao-Brown,
TAO CYCLE THERAPY: Natural Happiness
via Self-Directed Cure for Chronic Anxiety & Depression
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