Showing results for "A - M" in Anxiety Disorders

If you suffer from unwanted, intrusive, frightening, or even disturbing thoughts, you might worry about what these thoughts mean about you. Thoughts can seem like messages - are they trying to tell you something? But the truth is that they are just thoughts, and don’t necessarily mean anything. Sane and good people have them. If you are someone who is plagued by thoughts you don’t want - thoughts that scare you, or thoughts you can’t tell anyone about - this book may change your life.

A chronic sense of unease. Nagging what-ifs. Worry about what other people think. Paralyzing phobias. Full-blown panic attacks. Anxiety shows up in a lot of different ways and can permeate every aspect of your life. The good news is that although it can feel confusing and overwhelming—as if things will never get better—it is possible to retrain your brain and put yourself back in the driver's seat.

From subtle avoidance behaviors to the most nightmarish terrors, anticipatory anxiety is the engine that drives it all. Understanding how this hidden enemy tricks you, and, most importantly, how to overcome it, will liberate you to live a more flexible and joyful life. In Overcoming Anticipatory Anxiety, two anxiety experts team up to teach you how to manage your overactive imagination, limit future-based thinking, face your fears, make decisions, and live with more freedom and joy.

In this practical yet powerful guide, psychologist and neuroscience expert Catherine Pittman—author of Rewire Your Anxious Brain—introduces fifty new ways to work with your brain's neural connections to find lasting, effective relief from your worst anxiety symptoms. The chapters of this book can be used in any order, as needed, to give you the information you need to act now, whether you're at home or on the go. Also included are quick skills to help you soothe an anxious or stressed-out brain through physical movement, identifying what you care about, and banishing toxic thinking.

Do you find yourself repeatedly checking your email for no reason, asking others for their opinions about something again and again, or lying awake at night overanalyzing and planning ahead? If so, you probably have a problem with compulsive reassurance seeking. The good news is that you can break free from this "reassurance trap" - this book will show you how. In this unique guide, you'll find proven-effective tips and tools using CBT to help you tolerate uncertainty, face specific worrying scenarios, and gradually reduce the compulsion to incessantly seek reassurance.

You can't just "get over" anxiety. In fact, the very things most people do to try to feel better - avoiding feared situations, pushing worry out of mind - only make the problem worse. Leading psychologists Susan M. Orsillo and Lizabeth Roemer present a powerful new alternative that can help you break free of anxiety by fundamentally changing how you relate to it. With clarity and compassion, this book describes clinically tested mindfulness practices specifically tailored for anxiety in its many forms.

Yes I'm Fine, Just Tired, is a first person account of how Tom went from being a teenager, disabled by Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, panic attacks and anxiety, to an adult content with who he is. Everyone experiences anxiety at some point in their lives. However, more people are coming to view anxiety not as a disorder (necessarily) but as an emotion. It rises and falls based on the level of perceived danger. It acts as a protective mechanism in this way.

Stává se vám, že vás někdy přepadnou doslova hrůzné myšlenky? "Co když uklouznu ve vaně a zraním se?" "Co když mi při koupání vyklouzne dítě z ruky?" Ba dokonce: "Co mi zabrání strčit kocoura do mrazáku?" Jsme špatní, nemožní, ba psychicky nemocní, když nám čas od času tohle vytane v mysli? Nikoli! Tyto nechtěné vtíravé myšlenky mají i zdraví a hodní lidé. Jestli vás takové nápady trápí, pak vám autoři – američtí psychologové, odborníci na zvládání úzkosti – pomohou odpoutat se od nich, překonat zahanbení, které s sebou nesou, a snížit vaši úzkost.

Frei und flexibel im Hier und Jetzt leben. Gehen Sie automatisch immer vom Schlimmsten aus? Stressen Sie Situationen, die noch nicht eingetreten sind, oder lauert für Sie hinter jeder Ecke eine Katastrophe? Fühlen Sie sich bei Entscheidungen überfordert und wie gelähmt? Von subtilem Vermeidungsverhalten bis hin zu alptraumhaften Ängsten: Immer ist Erwartungsangst der Motor, der all das antreibt.

At least ten percent of children have excessive fears and worries—phobias, separation anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive-disorder—that can hold them back and keep them from fully enjoying childhood. If your child suffers from any of these forms of anxiety, this book offers new, practical, and evidence-based proven tools that can help.

If you have an anxiety disorder or experience anxiety symptoms that interfere with your day-to-day life, you can benefit from learning four simple skills that therapists use with their clients. These easy-to-learn skills are at the heart of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a cutting-edge therapeutic approach that can help you better manage the panic attacks, worries, and fears that limit your life and keep you feeling stuck. In The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anxiety, you'll learn how to use each of these skills to manage your anxiety, worry, and stress.

A phobia is a strong irrational fear that induces high levels of panic or anxiety, and often results in complete avoidance of particular situations or circumstances. What is being experienced is the natural self-defence mechanism, the fight or flight response, responding to psychological fear and worry instead of real physical danger. The rewind technique in this program is designed to correct these faulty templates so that the fight or flight response is only triggered in the event of real danger.