Overview
These immediate, user-friendly, and effective strategies are designed to help you overcome anxiety. They include step-by-step exercises that you can do in the moment without having to understand the subtleties of the most often used therapies for treating anxiety.
Synopsis
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.
Editorials
From the Publisher
“Edmund Bourne is one of the major experts on anxiety. In this simple little book, he gives readers who suffer from anxiety attacks on all levels of intensity ten extraordinarily useful tools for anxiety relief in the most accessible form available in print.”
—Matthew Mckay PH.D., author Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook
“ Coping with Anxiety is an extremely caluable resource guide for anyone suffering from anxiety. It is very comprehensive in its scope, describing a wide range of useful methods that will help the reader lessen anxiety and create a more calm, peaceful way of life.”
—Janet E. Esposito, MSW, author In the SpotLight: Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking and Performing