Reading for sufferers of Panic Attacks, Anxiety, Phobias and OCD.
Last Modified 2010-06-08 18:20:42It would be pointless to simply list every book that was ever written on the subject, so I have chosen a few that I have either read or were recommended to me over the years by other sufferers and professionals.
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Title:Essential Help for Your Nerves
Description: This new edition of "More Self Help for Your Nerves" also includes "Peace from Nervous Suffering" - together they forge an understanding of nervous illness and develop a recovery programme to instill confidence and happiness. In this companion to "Self Help for Your Nerves", Dr Weekes explores the common and almost inevitable patterns that can occur with nervous illness. She also looks at the commonest kind of nervous illness - the anxiety state, or nervous breakdown. (highly recommended)
Title:Self Help for Your Nerves
Description: Essential guide for everything you need to know to keep relaxed through every day life Repackage of the phenomenally successful guide to dealing with nervous illness -- Self Help for Your Nerves. This guide offers the most comprehensive insight and advice into coping with nervous stress. Sufferers of nervous illness regard Self Help for Your Nerves as their bible -- many believe that if they had found it earlier they would have been saved years of unnecessary suffering. (highly recommended)
Title:Panic Attack, Anxiety and Phobia Solutions Handbook
Description: Help with Panic Attacks, Anxiety, Phobias & OCD. There is useful information on causes, biology, symptoms and treatments, and the various drugs used to treat all of these illnesses. A must for any sufferer or carer that will help you understand these much understood and under-rated illnesses (highly recommended)
Title:What to Say When You Talk to Your Self
Description: Not a method of hypnosis or subliminal suggestion, this self-talk program is a rational, methodical path for self-change that reprograms your mind, raising both your expectations of yourself and your ability to meet your newly expanded goals. (highly recommended)
Title:No Panic: Practical Guide to Managing Panic and Phobia
Description: Help on managing Panic and Phobias
Title:Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway
Description: A book of advice on how to cope with fear of various kinds of experience, such as public speaking, self-assertion, decision-making, intimacy, being alone, ageing, losing a loved one, and ending a relationship
Title:Panic Attacks: What They are, Why They Happen and What You Can Do About Them
Description: This guide explains what panic attacks are, why they happen and what every sufferer can do to empower themselves, regain control and make panic a thing of the past. Containing a broad range of topics including: what to do during an attack; what's happening during an attack; self-help to prevent attacks from developing; information for friends & relatives about panic attacks lifestyle, therapies and complementary therapies.
Title:Overcoming Panic (Overcoming Series)
Description: A complete course to help the reader beat panic attacks and the stresses they cause. The author, who has both researched and taught self-help techniques, describes clinically-proven therapy techniques.
Title:Understanding Panic Attacks and Overcoming Fear
Description: This book presents the psychological concepts on the subjects of panic attacks and overcoming fear in simplified language. In the final part of the book, Dr Baker spells out a practical programme, tried and tested with many patients, to enable sufferers to conquer panic attacks, and the fears associated with them.
Title:Understanding Panic Attacks and Overcoming Fear
Description: This book presents the psychological concepts on the subjects of panic attacks and overcoming fear in simplified language. In the final part of the book, Dr Baker spells out a practical programme, tried and tested with many patients, to enable sufferers to conquer panic attacks, and the fears associated with them.
Title:The OCD Workbook: Your Guide to Breaking Free from Obsessive-complusive Disorder
Description: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a neuro-biological disorder affecting one out of 40 adults. This book presents an intensive, self-directed programme that allows individuals to learn how to block, alter, delay, and postpone rituals, reduce fears, and change unhealthy thought patterns.
Title:Overcoming Panic, Anxiety and Phobias: New Strategies to Free Yourself from Worry and Fear
Description: A practical and engaging book which contains specific scientifically based cognitive-behavioral strategies to help people with panic, excess worry, social fears such as public speaking, being in social groups, phobias such as fear of flying, driving, etc. to manage their problems step-by step.
Title:In Stillness Conquer Fear: Overcoming Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Agoraphobia
Description: This volume describes how the author overcame her own experience of
agoraphobia by using a form of meditation.
Title:When Panic Attacks [Illustrated]
Description: Aine presents a deep understanding of panic attacks and offers practical and scientifically grounded advice on how to overcome them.
Title:Hidden Fears: Self Help for Anxiety and Phobias (Headline Health Kicks)
Description: From the HEADLINE HEALTH KICKS series, a self-help manual which contains techniques designed to overcome phobias. Special tips and useful aids to boost confidence are provided, as is information on understanding panic, testing one's state of mind, and making relaxation therapy work.
Title:Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
Description: A drug-free guide to curing anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other depressive disorders uses scientifically tested methods to improve mood and stave off the blues.
Title:Don't Panic: In Control of Fear, Panic and Anxiety
Description: None available
Title:The Little Book of Calm
Description: Feeling stressed? Need some help to regain balance in your life? Following the success of "Instant Calm", Paul Wilson has produced a book of advice and inspiration that aims to help readers quickly reach a state of calm. His words of guidance are distinct, with one suggestion per page, so the reader can open the book at any point and find a proven and easy way to achieve calm.
Title:The Little Book of Confidence
Description: For people faced with public speaking, asserting oneself and making decisions, the author offers practical advice and thought-provoking tips on how to transform their fears into confidence, energy and love.
Title:The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
Description: The ANXIETY & PHOBIA WORKBOOK is a practical and comprehensive guide offering help to anyone who is struggling with panic attacks, agoraphobia, social fears, generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, or other anxiety disorders. Step-by-step guidelines, questionnaires, and exercises will help you learn skills and make lifestyle changes necessary to achieve a lasting recovery.
