| Description |
1 online resource (375 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1: Detecting and Exposing Anxiety -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 2: Examining What Anxiety Is All About -- Anxiety: Help or Hindrance? -- What Anxiety Looks Like -- How Anxiety Differs from Other Emotional Disorders |
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Chapter 3: Investigating the Brain and Biology -- Examining the Anxious Brain -- Preparing to Fight or Flee -- Mimicking Anxiety: Drugs, Diet, and Diseases -- Chapter 4: Clearing the Roadblocks to Change -- Digging Out the Roots of Anxiety -- Finding Self-Acceptance -- Having Second Thoughts about Change -- Deciding to Get the Show on the Road -- Watching Worries Come and Go -- Getting Help from Others -- Part 2: Battling Anxiety -- Chapter 5: Understanding Feelings -- What Do You Feel and Why? -- Distinguishing Thoughts from Feelings -- Looking at the Feeling Cycle in Action |
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Chapter 6: Rethinking Your Thoughts -- Tackling Your Thoughts -- Cultivating Calm Thinking -- Watching Out for Worry Words -- Refuting and Replacing Your Worry Words -- Chapter 7: Busting Up Your Anxious Assumptions -- Understanding Anxious Assumptions -- Sizing Up Anxious Assumptions -- Coming Down with a Case of Anxious Assumptions -- Challenging Those Nasty Assumptions: Running a Cost/Benefit Analysis -- Designing Calm, Balanced Assumptions -- Above All: Be Kind to Yourself! -- Chapter 8: Mindful Acceptance -- Accepting Anxiety? Hey, That's a Switch! -- Connecting with the Here and Now |
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Accepting Mindfulness into Your Life -- Savoring Spirituality -- Chapter 9: Facing Fear -- All About Avoidance -- Exposure: Coming to Grips with Your Fears -- Conquering Different Types of Fears -- Expecting the Impossible -- Chapter 10: Medications and Other Biological Options -- Making Up Your Mind About Medications -- Understanding Medication Options -- Searching for Vitamins and Supplements -- Stimulating the Brain -- Part 3: Letting Go of the Battle -- Chapter 11: Looking at Lifestyle -- Friends and Family -- Can't Live with 'em, Can't Live without 'em -- Ready ... Exorcise! |
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The ABCs of Getting Your Zs -- Designing Calm Diets -- Chapter 12: Meditating as Part of a Healthy Lifestyle -- Meditation Basics -- What's So Good About Meditating? -- Meditation Methods -- Discovering Other Meditation Resources -- Buyer Beware: Meditation Myths -- Part 4: Zeroing in on Specific Worries -- Chapter 13: Emotional Preparedness During a Pandemic -- Pushing Through Pandemic-Related Anxiety and Stress -- Figuring out Fact versus Fiction -- Chapter 14: Facing a Career Crisis and Financial Woes -- Meeting Job Worries Head-On -- Taking Stock of Your Resources |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Anxiety -- Popular works
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Anxiety
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| Genre/Form |
Popular works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Smith, Laura L
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| ISBN |
9781119768531 |
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1119768535 |
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