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From the Book - Second edition.
Detecting and exposing anxiety
Battling anxiety
Letting go of the battle
Zeroing in on specific worries
Helping others with anxiety
The part of tens.
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Introduction -- About this book -- What not to read -- Foolish assumptions -- How this book is organized -- Icons used in this book -- Where to go from here -- pt. 1. Detecting and exposing anxiety -- 1. Analyzing and attacking anxiety -- Anxiety : everybody's doing it -- Tabulating the costs of anxiety -- Recognizing the symptoms of anxiety -- Seeking help for your anxiety -- 2. Examining anxiety : what's normal, what's not -- Presenting the seven main types of anxiety -- Sorting out what's normal from what's not -- Mimicking anxiety : drugs and diseases -- Preparing to fight or run -- 3. Clearing the roadblocks to change -- Digging out the roots of anxiety -- Moving from self-abuse to self-acceptance -- Having second thoughts about change -- Deciding if you really want to get the show on the road -- 4. Watching worries come and go -- Following your fears all the way down the line -- Sizing up success -- pt. II. The thought remedies -- 5. Becoming a thought detective -- Distinguishing thoughts from feelings -- Tracking your thoughts, triggers, and feelings -- Tackling your thoughts : thought therapy -- Cultivating calm thinking -- 6. Busting up your agitating assumptions -- Understanding agitating assumptions -- Finding your agitating assumptions -- Testing your beliefs and assumptions -- Coming down with a case of agitating assumptions -- Challenging those nasty assumptions : running a cost/benefit analysis -- Challenging your own agitating assumptions -- Designing balanced assumptions -- Above all : be kind to yourself -- 7. Watching out for worry words -- Stacking little sticks into bonfires of anxiety -- Tracking your worry words -- Refuting and replacing your worry words --
pt. III. Anti-anxiety actions -- 8. Facing fear one step at a time -- Exposure : coming to grips with your fears -- Conquering your fears -- Chasing rainbows -- 9. Simply simplifying your life -- Evaluating what's important versus what's not -- Ranking priorities -- Delegating for extra time -- Just saying "no" -- 10. Let's get physical -- Ready...exercise! -- Don't wait for willpower, just do it -- Working in your workout -- Selecting an exercise, whatever turns you on -- 11. Sleep, sweet sleep -- Giving sleeplessness a name -- The ABCs of getting your Zs -- Following a few relaxing routines -- What to do when sleep just won't come -- Nagging nightmares -- pt. IV. Focusing on feeling -- 12. Relaxation : the five-minute solution -- Blowing anxiety away -- Chilling out -- Relaxing via your senses -- 13. Creating calm in your imagination -- Letting your imagination roam -- Full sensory imaging -- Customizing your own images -- 14. Relieving anxiety with herbs and dietary supplements -- Searching for supplements -- Hunting for helpful herbs -- 15. Prescribing peacefulness -- Making up your mind about medications -- Understanding medication options -- 16. Mindful acceptance -- Accepting anxiety? Hey, that's a switch! -- Letting go of ego -- Connecting with the real thing -- Accepting mindfulness into your life -- pt. V. Helping others with anxiety -- 17. Helping your kids fight anxiety -- Separating normal from abnormal -- Inspecting the most common childhood anxiety disorders -- Nipping anxiety in the bud -- Helping already anxious children -- 18. When someone you love suffers from anxiety -- Discovering if your partners suffers with anxiety -- Talking together about anxiety -- Guiding the way -- Teaming up against anxiety -- Accepting anxiety with love --
pt. VI. The part of tens
19. Ten ways to stop anxiety quickly
Breathing out your anxiety
Talking with a friend
Exercising aerobically
Soothing the body
Taking Kava Kava
Challenging your anxious thinking
Listening to music
Finding distractions
Having sex
Staying with the moment
20. Ten anxiety busters that just don't work
Avoiding what scares you
Whining and complaining
Seeking reassurance
Hoping for miracles
Seeking quick fixes
Lying on the couch : Freudian psychoanalysis
Drinking your troubles away
Trying too hard
Sipping herbal drinks
Taking medication as a sole solution
21. Ten ways to deal with relapse
Expecting anxiety
Counting the swallows
Checking out why anxiety returned
Seeing a doctor
Revisiting what worked before
Doing something different
Getting support
Considering booster sessions
Looking at the stages of change
Accepting anxiety
22. Ten signs that you need professional help
Having suicidal thoughts or plans
Feeling hopeless
Handling anxiety and depression
Trying and trying and trying
Struggling at home
Dealing with major problems at work
Suffering from sever obsessions or compulsions
Understanding post-traumatic stress disorder
Going through sleepless nights
Getting high
Finding help
Appendix. Resources for you
Self-help books
Resources to help children
Accessing Web sites to discover more about anxiety.
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9780470574416
9780764554476
9780470637081
9780764554476
9780470637081
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