The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It

The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It
ISBN-10
162625320X
ISBN-13
9781626253209
Category
Self-Help
Pages
232
Language
English
Published
2016-02-02
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications
Author
David A. Carbonell

Description

Are you truly in danger or has your brain simply "tricked" you into thinking you are? In The Worry Trick, psychologist and anxiety expert David Carbonell shows how anxiety hijacks the brain and offers effective techniques to help you break the cycle of worry, once and for all. Anxiety is a powerful force. It makes us question ourselves and our decisions, causes us to worry about the future, and fills our days with dread and emotional turbulence. Based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this book is designed to help you break the cycle of worry. Worry convinces us there's danger, and then tricks us into getting into fight, flight, or freeze mode—even when there is no danger. The techniques in this book, rather than encouraging you to avoid or try to resist anxiety, shows you how to see the trick that underlies your anxious thoughts, and how avoidance can backfire and make anxiety worse. If you’re ready to start observing your anxious feelings with distance and clarity—rather than getting tricked once again—this book will show you how.

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