Anxiety for Dummies - Paperback

by Charles H. Elliott (Author), Laura L. Smith (Author)

Take control of your anxiety--and start living your life

Feel like your life is spinning out of control? Not sure how to handle what seems like constant change and chaos? You're not alone--the world has taken some pretty crazy turns recently--but if you suffer from an anxiety disorder, you're likely suffering far more than you need to. Anxiety is our natural reaction to unfamiliar, stressful, and dangerous situations, but for some of us this reaction can become all-consuming and ultimately debilitating. Anxiety For Dummies has the antidote to this, showing you how to manage feelings of uneasiness, distress, and dread--and take back control of your life.

In a straightforward and friendly style, clinical psychologists Charles H. Elliot and Laura L. Smith show you how to pinpoint your triggers, use proven techniques and therapies, improve health and eating habits, and make other practical changes to your lifestyle that will have you feeling better fast.

• Understand what makes you anxious and learn to let go
• Change your thinking to "right-size" your worry
• Evaluate self-help as an adjunct to professional therapy
• Explore healthy lifestyles and medication options

Including updates to the clinical literature and discussions of the impacts of world events--such as COVID-19--this book has everything you need to manage your worries and put you, not them, in charge of your life.

Front Jacket

• Explore effective ways to manage anxiety
• Understand and challenge your anxious thinking
• Make meaningful life changes

Manage anxiety--and start living your life!

If you feel like your life is spinning out of control, you're definitely not alone! While anxiety is a natural reaction to stress, for some of us, it can become all-consuming--and ultimately debilitating. Thankfully, there is plenty you can do to combat anxiety with the help of this approachable guide. Inside, find out how adopting proven techniques like pinpointing triggers, improving health and eating habits, and learning to let go can help you effectively and deliberately manage your worries--and take back control of your life.

Inside...

• Recognize symptoms
• Know useful vs. toxic anxiety
• Examine the causes of your anxiety
• Develop the practice of mindful acceptance
• Help your kids with their anxiety
• Block the blues
• Face your fears
• Adopt anxiety-reducing habits

Author Biography

Charles H. Elliot, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and Professor Emeritus at Fielding Graduate University. Laura L. Smith, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and a Past President of the New Mexico Psychological Association.