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Summary: From Panic to Power : Proven Techniques to Calm Your Anxieti
Review: Only a generic review of anxiety disorder. The case studies were somewhat interesting although the author's story got a little old and was not that interesting. I had to read this book for a Psychology class and was not impressed. Suggest "The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook" by Davis, M, et.al.
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Summary: There is Help, There is Hope
Review: I've not only completed the Conquering Anxiety and Depression program, founded by Lucinda Basset, I've also read this extremely helpful, well rounded book.
Ms. Bassett knows of what she writes- she's lived a life full of peaks and valley's, terrible personal losses and a difficult childhood. All these ingredients led to a life once full of anxiety so heightened, it seriously hindered her quality of life.
In this book, you will learn that no matter how scary your thoughts may be, no matter how depressed you may become as a result of your panic or anxiety, you have the key within yourself to retrain your mind. How easy it is to feed into our anxiety- so easy, it becomes habit. A very self-defeating habit.
Ms. Bassett not only demonstrates through life example and sound advice how to overcome your anxiety/panic, she does it in such a way that you feel as though your reading the words of a best friend. Gently nudging you down your own road to healing and recovery, Ms. Bassett is a beacon of hope for anyone experiencing the seemingly endless grips of anxiety, panic, and depression. I recommend this book with all I am- because I've personally come through the darkness of anxiety attacks with the aid of Ms. Bassett's helpful book and program.
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Summary: Nothing New
Review: She's not a therapist. I feel as if she is using her past anxiety problems to rip off the people with anxiety problems. If you want a good book, see Dr. Edmund Bourne's Anxiety and Phobia Workbook, the gold standard among self help for anxiety.
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Summary: Same Old Useless Rhetoric
Review: If you have a serious anxiety problem, you won't find help in this book. First of all, the author seems to be more interested in telling her own story than addressing ways of overcoming anxiety, and her anxiety was minimal. She fusses about being afraid of taking a plane trip to Mexico with a boyfriend (while working full time). Anyone with truly severe anxiety isn't working full time and couldn't consider a trip out of the country. Second, the author repeats herself over and over again. Third, the information in this book is old. If you've read a book about anxiety during the past thirty-five years or so, you already know everything found here. Everything. There is nothing new. I've had anxiety disorder since I was a child, and I'm now fifty-five years old. Because of a series of family losses, heart disease, and other recent traumas, I now also have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This book just added to my anxiety by irritating me with its sophomoric rhetoric.
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