Panic Attacks Workbook: A Guided Program for Beating the Panic Trick
Panic Attacks Workbook: A Guided Program for Beating the Panic Trick
PANIC TRICKS YOU
Panic is an insidious trick that makes you fear simple, everyday things: driving, shopping, socializing, traveling and more. The first attack comes out of nowhere, and then panic tricks you into responding in precisely the ways that invite the panic back, again and again.
BUT ITS JUST A TRICK
The panic trick is highly effective and has drawn millions of people into panic attacks and phobias. But you can outsmart and beat this trick. Panic Attacks Workbook shows you how, with a step-by-step guide from panic to recovery. The proven methods in this book show how to identify the panic trick and empower you with the tools to address your fears and solve this debilitating problem.
STEPS TO RECOVERY
Part 1 details precisely what the panic trick is and how it operates. It also includes exercises to help you find evidence of the trick at work in your own life.
Part 2 starts you on the path to recovery with hands-on lessons that prepare you for the primary program in Part 3.
Part 3 shows you how to design and implement your own desensitization and exposure program that will free you from panic attacks and phobias.
Part 4 offers additional help with the five most common phobiasclaustrophobia, social phobia, and the fears of flying, public speaking and driving.
“Dr. Carbonell, a long-time colleague of mine, has written a wonderful, inspiring and comprehensive guidebook for winning over panic attacks. While panic attacks are terrifying for the sufferer, they take over territory in a persons life by playing a very simple but powerful game. In Panic Attacks Workbook you will find the solid and clever strategies needed to win this mental game and take back your life.” - R. Reid Wilson, Ph.D., author, Dont Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Expose yourself
If you are experiencing panic attacks of significant intensity with or without agoraphobia, this is a great book to consider. Dr. Carbonell’s sense of humor is tops and his writing will make you feel at ease. It is, however, a self-guided program that takes extra guts and moderate motivation, which is sometimes hard to muster when you’re experiencing severe anxiety. I tried it for a few weeks and it helped me get back on my feet.
4 Stars Panic Attacks
I bought this book for my mom. I believe that she is enjoying it. The seller was great.
5 Stars The Best Panic/Anxiety Book I Have Read
I have suffered with panic and anxiety for a long time, and have read and tried many self-help books along the way. I started this book yesterday, and read it cover to cover. I can already see the ways of my thinking about panic was flawed for years. This book is already helping see the light at the end of the panic “cycle.” The exercises are all useful and humorous, and I never found myself getting bored or confused by the writing.
Please remember, as with any large task you undertake, you may get worse before you get better, but that’s because you are facing it, and that takes a lot of courage. This book will help you see that and understand that it’s okay to be who you are, and having an anxiety problem does not make you a flawed person.
5 Stars This book is AWESOME!!!!!
I just received this book in the mail a few days ago. I suffer from panic attacks, and well, I just can’t put the book down..it is wonderful. I have not started the steps to recovery…but I will…I just wanted to say that I know this book will give me back my life.
5 Stars Great book from a doctor who doesn’t suffer NPD
First, a little personal background. It was a Monday in early May (10th to be exact) when it hit like a ton of bricks. When I say that I mean a TON OF BRICKS and it felt as if each and every brick was piled on my chest. I had no doubt whatsoever that I was about to die. At the time I was driving on a limited access toll road and the exits were few and far between. Somehow that afternoon I made it home. I tried to calm down but I was walking outside and I could not stop moving. It was absolutely horrible.
Our son had a little league baseball game at 7 p.m. which is why I came home early. As I backed out of the garage and started for the park I found myself turning toward the hospital instead. I presented with chest pains, sky high blood pressure, thought I was going nuts (it might have been too late for that - it might have already happened), was shaking all over, could not sit still and knew I was going to die. I was whisked past the emergency room and promptly deposited in a bed in the Coronary Care Unit of a major teaching hospital with a suspected heart attack.
For the next two days the staff ran tests, more tests and I think they tested the tests. A bucket of money later the Chief of Cardiology, who was also a friend, proclaimed from “on high” that I had not had a heart attack and he didn’t have a clue about what happened. He was not alone in his non-diagnosis diagnosis.
Over the next nine years I saw 13 physicians and 2 psychologists with the end result being that I LOST nine years of my life as I became agoraphobic also. All they actually did for me was shove another Valium scrip into my pocket until I was at 60 mg. of Valium and ValRelease per day. It was like popping M & Ms for all the good it did. For five years, in my prime with our son’s sports events and all, I could not leave our home. The most I could do was walk to the end of the driveway and get the newspaper.
When I finally found someone who could help me on July 20, 1991 it only required about 2 days of meds to get my *whole* life back.
Now, on to the review:
A little fast for the review notice from Amazon as this book is a course of action self-learning. All great knowledge stems from autodidactic personalities and David Carbonell definitely provides a wonderful process of self-learning. After just a few minutes with this tome you will be able to see where he is going. All you have to do is follow the bread crumbs to get home safely.
This should tell someone reading these reviews that this is not a “grab it, couldn’t put it down” type of book (or manual, if you prefer that term). This is not a quick fix like a pill that lasts until its half-life depletes its efficacy. To complete the program you must work at it like you have never worked before. It’s scary. It’s challenging. It’s a lifesaver.
The book does not have a path to a cure for panic disorder but you do not need to find a cure to get your life back. This program is really good.
While The National Institute of Mental Health says, “There is no cure for panic disorder” relief is something you can achieve if you decide to own this book. If you suffer from Panic Disorder, to any degree, you owe it to yourself to order this book as soon as practicable.
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