COPING WITH ANXIETY

Anxiety specialist Dr. Edmund Bourne, has distilled the most effective strategies for overcoming the physical, mental, and emotional symptoms of anxiety, into 10 clear and simple solutions. These are the ultimate tools for anxiety relief, and their effects are immediate. Each of the ten solutions includes step-by-step exercises for combating a particular feature of anxiety and is offered in a concise, reader-friendly style. Each of the strategies provides something the reader can do in the moment, without having to understand the subtleties of the most often used therapies for treating anxiety: cognitive therapy and desensitization. Theoretical text is limited to that information necessary for understanding the goal of the solutions, which include body relaxation, mental relaxation, facing fears, changing diet, turning off worry, and much, muchmore. This book also includes an afterword on medication.Ed Bourne is one of the most popular and trusted specialists and writers in this field. This simple book clearly presents what he knows to be the most effective techniques for handling anxiety, in a format that makes these techniques accessible and their effects immediate to all. Lorna Garano is a freelance editor and writer living in the San Francisco Bay Area.