When Panic Attacks: The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy That Can Change Your Life

please buy it as it is a great self help tool that will aid you through depression anxiety or any other disorders

I am far from an avid reader. However this is what some would call "A page turner". Well written and easy to understand. This is a practical and logical approach to what many maybe turned off by when it comes to "psychology". I am actually going to read it again. This is one of the 3 reviews I have ever felt inclined to share. If you consider your self a critical thinker or systematic or Socratic, what ever the case maybe, you will not be able to put this book down. I am an ordinary fellow and it helped me. The book exposes many irrational beliefs that at one point of another will all tell ourselves. If you are dealing with an phobia at all, the author shows you several techniques to beat the issue. One of these techniques if call "flooding". This also know as exposure therapy. An example would be if your claustrophobic you would close your self in a closet until the fear was so great that it would climax and eventually subside. Sounds a bit much, but it works. All the techniques are not this intimidating. There are not only techniques but common errors in everyday thinking that cause great stress. The word "should" is an excellent example. Many times we use the word "should" instead of "preferable". This can produce great anxiety when referring to what "we should of done". Should insinuates failure and incompetence when it's requirement is not met. The word "should" applies to laws of gravity, and moral values. If I push this laptop off my desk, it "should" fall to the ground. It's these small adjustments in thinking that make an real difference. Sounds like a commercial but from start to finish the concepts in the book are beautifully simple. There is a chapter called "Hidden Emotion" that states much anxiety is not rooted in a shadowy deep past but often times is due to the elephant in the room that some how we have learned to sweep under the rug. This is easy to do, and our minds have gotten incredible efficient at it. Once these habits and ideas are identified and then addressed by teaching an alternate, more logical, fair approach, much anxiety subsides. As the author said, "Anxiety never just occurs." There are biological aspects but they are far and few in-between. I was diagnosed with PTSD at a late age. After Exposure therapy (which is like looking the school bully in his eyes and saying "take your best shot") I was able to confront the monster, (what I was spending so much time and effort running from) only to find out it had no teeth.This takes incredible courage.>> If your not absolutely sick and tired of dealing with excessive anxiety then this book is not for you. If you are willing to be brave and honest with yourself and do what ever it takes, Dr. Burns Cognitive (thought based) therapy can help put the "truth to the lie" and set your free.. It's like explaining to someone "what the Grand Canyon looks the first time." You just can't. Buy it.

What it great about this book is the way Dr Burns outlines the way panic attacks happen and then gives specific techniques for working with them. I love this book. Its a real life changer. I now use the Mood Log technique virtually every day. There are lots of other techniques in the book, but to be honest and haven't gone much past the first 150 pages or so and I have not needed to. I have got what I need for now (and am delighted with it) maybe I will look at the other bits of the book later. The When Panic Attacks is thorough and in-depth and that makes it quite long. My suggestion is to start using the Mood Log before reading the rest of the book (or scan through the rest of it to see what grabs you) otherwise maybe too easy to get lost in the details. The wife stuck this book in front of my nose while we were in a bookshop in London. "Maybe - just a suggestion - that you could read a little bit of this,", she said in her very polite Japanese way. I am so glad she did as I bought it on the spot and it has helped me change my thinking in a fundamental way. I have now bought one on Amazon to send to a close relative as I figure she needs it too. --- William Fergus Martin, Author Forgiveness is Power: A User's Guide to Why and How to Forgive Kindle Version Forgiveness is Power: A User's Guide to Why and How to Forgive

As someone who suffers from panic attacks and agoraphobia and has been for many years I have read countless self help books and this one is by far the best I’ve read. Well written, with great examples and in a way that really reasonable with you. I’ve read that book more than once, highlighted parts, wrote in it etc. it got so used I bought a second copy. This is also the book I recommend to anyone who suffers from anxiety.

Illustrates several strategies to change automatic negative thoughts into more positive and realistic.

très bon livre, facile à lire, des conseils concrets afin de trouver la meilleure méthode pour gérer les différents types d'anxiété