Mental Anxiety

Modern life is a minefield for stress. Whether it’s juggling work, relationships or money, we often struggle to make time for ourselves. And can find ourselves stuck in a rut with bad habits or worries. In How to Be Your Own Therapist, Owen O’Kane reveals how short smart techniques throughout the day can form a healthier perspectives and let you ditch harmful thought patterns.

The New York Times best-selling author of Untangled presents an urgently needed guide to the alarming increase in anxiety and stress experienced by girls from elementary school through college.

It's hard to watch the news, scroll through social media, or listen to the radio without hearing or seeing something disturbing about the climate emergency. This can trigger all sorts of emotions: worry, anger, sadness, guilt, and even grief but also often over-looked positive emotions like motivation, connection, care, and abundance that support mental health and climate action for sustainable longevity. Written by psychologists with extensive experience, this audiobook shows you how to harness these emotions, validate them, and transform them into positive action.

Fully updated edition of the best-selling self-help book, now recommended on the national Reading Well scheme. This ever-popular guide offers a self-help programme, written by one of the UK's leading authorities on anxiety and based on CBT, for those suffering from anxiety problems. A whole range of anxieties and fears are explained, from panic attacks and phobias to obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and generalised anxiety.

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.

Don’t let stress control your life. Discover how to conquer it quickly with the international bestseller by Sarah Wright. This guide strips away the medical jargon and overwhelming exercises to offer you simple, effective techniques that you can start using immediately.

Thoughts are simply a normal part of being human, but we’ve all had them disrupt our lives. Reclaim Your Life teaches you to accept and manage your thoughts with evidence-based principles and strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Discover ways to increase your flexibility in thinking, get some distance from your thoughts, and work toward a life full of values and purpose. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps you get a handle on your emotions and find more adaptive responses from difficulties like panic attacks and low self-esteem.

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.

Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed by an endless to-do list? Struggling to stay focused and manage your time effectively? The Executive Functioning Workbook for Adults (5-in-1) is your complete guide to overcoming procrastination, improving focus, and achieving your goals with confidence. Renowned cognitive performance expert Taylor Reed provides practical strategies to help you build mental clarity, manage stress, and enhance productivity.

Whether it's the monster in the closet or the fear that arises from new social situations, school, or sports, anxiety can be especially challenging and maddening for children. And since anxiety has a mind of its own, logic and reassurance often fail, leaving parents increasingly frustrated about how to help. Now Lawrence J. Cohen, PhD, the author of Playful Parenting, provides a special set of tools to handle childhood anxiety.

Everyone thrives on love, safety of family, friends, and community but, if you are denied these basic comforts, you may develop intense fears of abandonment that can last well into adulthood. Anxiety is something that we all share and it’s a normal human condition. But the good news is that anxiety can be overcome! By understanding the most important psychological and social factors, you will learn how to cultivate secure and healthy relationships to last a lifetime.

If you suffer from anxiety, you may feel stuck in a vicious cycle of rumination, worry, and avoidance—and ultimately miss out on all life has to offer. But what if you could shift your thinking and start living with more expansiveness, hope, and happiness? What if you could transform stress and anxiety, and find lasting balance, peace, and joy? Psychologist Dan Tomasulo offers powerful skills to help you overcome negative thinking and harness the power of positivity to reduce stress, boost confidence, and find instant calm and sustainable happiness.

Descubre cómo una proteína llamada Factor Neurotrófico Derivado del Cerebro (BDNF) juega un papel clave en la ansiedad. ¿Sabías que las personas con trastornos de ansiedad tienden a tener niveles más bajos de BDNF? En "Vive sin Ansiedad" aprenderás técnicas para aumentar tus niveles de BDNF de manera natural y reducir la ansiedad. Los avances más recientes en neurociencia corroboran y redescubren el conocimiento ancestral de las antiguas civilizaciones. Es fascinante ver cómo la ciencia moderna valida lo que nuestros antepasados ya sabían.

Do you want to understand how to manage moments of anxiety? Are you suffering from panic attacks? As you can imagine, anxiety, depression, and negativity can easily take root and grow within us, making us just the shell of the people we truly are. Life has a way of getting us down, but our life’s worth lies in the way that we defeat these negative thoughts and live our lives to the fullest. If you are looking for methods to strengthen your armor against the darkness in life, then you have come to the proper place to become prepared for battle against negativity!

Diet is an essential component of a client's clinical profile. Few therapists, however, have any nutritional training, and many don't know where to begin. In Nutrition Essentials for Mental Health, Leslie Korn provides clinicians with a practical guide to the complex relationship between what we eat and the way we think, feel, and interact with the world. Where there is mental illness there is frequently a history of digestive and nutritional problems. Digestive problems in turn exacerbate mental distress.

This engaging, science-backed blueprint—written by a clinical psychologist—will help you understand your anxiety, work through it, and naturally connect. Packed with proven strategies, personal stories, distilled research, and examples from his clinical practice, Dr. Thomas Smithyman leads you through the maze of dating-based social anxiety and helps you discover the warm social world that awaits. It’s possible to overcome your social anxiety, and it’s possible to date without fear. Connection might be closer than you think.

Disinterest and overstimulation. These perfectly natural phenomena can be useful for directing and diverting attention, but when taken to their extremes can lead to anxiety and depression. Modern neuroscience, medicinal chemistry, and psychology have revealed the role dopamine plays in these behaviors, and how to change them. Through an understanding of how our brains respond to stimulation through changes in dopamine, we can alter our behaviors to not only feel better while doing things, but to feel better about the things we are doing.

Understand trauma and discover its effects on the brain and body, develop a personalized recovery plan to overcome stress and anxiety, and find long-lasting healing. Recognized by Oprah Winfrey as a "spiritual thinker for the next generation," Mastin Kipp guides you through a plan for working through trauma. You'll come away with a clear understanding of trauma in your own life and others', and how to apply the best practices and information to fully heal and thrive.

Overwhelming anxiety and stress - most of us experience these feelings at some point. The challenges in our lives threaten to overpower us at times and the struggles we see in the world further add to the burden. Peace from Anxiety helps us understand the deep roots of our suffering so that we can work toward finding more peace - even in chaos. Therapist and yoga teacher Hala Khouri takes us on a journey to investigate our personal habits, understand our lives, and transform what doesn't serve us.

About a third of the world population suffers from an anxiety disorder, and half of Americans have had at least one traumatic experience like rape, assault, shooting, or natural disasters. Fear and anxiety are with us everywhere we go. Fear is deeply woven into our biology, culture, politics, and day to day life. We sometimes don't even know what we are afraid of. What we know for sure is that we are afraid too often.But why are we so scared? How does fear work in our brains? What is the evolutionary purpose of fear? In this book, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist answers these questions.