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Here is the first AudioBook to explore every facet of the most common and debilitating emotional state: worry. While a healthy level of worry can help us perform efficiently at work, anticipate dangers, and learn from past errors, in its extreme forms worry can become "toxic"--poisoning our pleasures, sabotaging our achievements, and preventing us from resolving actual problems.
In this lucid, reassuring book, Dr. Hallowell discusses all types of worry, explores their underlying causes, and considers the best strategies for coping. Case histories and anecdotes illuminate such issues as worry in relationships; the correlation between worry and conditions like , depression, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder; worry at work; and the worried child. In an effective section titled "Remedies That Work," Dr. Hallowell shows us how to evaluate, control, and manage worry, both with and without medication.
Even "born" worriers can learn to use their worry wisely and channel it healthily. This AudioBook is the key.
Filled with practical solutions and insightful guidance, Worry is an invaluable aid to living a happier, calmer, and more rewarding emotional life.
Read by the Author
Here is the first AudioBook to explore every facet of the most common and debilitating emotional state: worry. While a healthy level of worry can help us perform efficiently at work, anticipate dangers, and learn from past errors, in its extreme forms worry can become "toxic"--poisoning our pleasures, sabotaging our achievements, and preventing us from resolving actual problems.
In this lucid, reassuring book, Dr. Hallowell discusses all types of worry, explores their underlying causes, and considers the best strategies for coping. Case histories and anecdotes illuminate such issues as worry in relationships; the correlation between worry and conditions like , depression, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder; worry at work; and the worried child. In an effective section titled "Remedies That Work," Dr. Hallowell shows us how to evaluate, control, and manage worry, both with and without medication.
Even "born" worriers can learn to use their worry wisely and channel it healthily. This AudioBook is the key.
Filled with practical solutions and insightful guidance, Worry is an invaluable aid to living a happier, calmer, and more rewarding emotional life.
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As far as we know, plants and animals don't do it. Worry is a human "skill." And it comes in different forms. Some kinds indicate diagnosable conditions, such as depression, or Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). Others, such as shyness, are built in from birth, and some seem plain old existential--stemming from broken trust or loss of faith. But worry is uniquely human. "To create worry," Dr. Hallowell writes, "humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well."
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Illustrating his theories with the personal stories of and dialogues with clients, Hallowell provides a full picture of the ordinary yet chronic worry-problems. Thus, each presenting problem is dramatically rendered, and the ensuing therapies practically understood. Hallowell emphasizes the physical, not the psychological aspect of worrying, which helps stop the cycle of self-blame many worriers are prone to. When worry is no longer identified as a lack of moral courage, for example, but a natural phenomenon, it can begin to be managed.
The steps set forth in Worry: Controlling and Using It Wisely are practical and straightforward. First comes awareness, which, over time, sets the stage for new patternmaking in the brain. An entire chapter is devoted to methods of running interventions on worry without medication. Worry offers an articulate and powerful reframe of a debilitating condition that's as old as the human brain. By releasing the deeply entrenched habit of negativity, a worrier can step out of the cycle, and freed from phobia, move ahead.
"IMMENSELY HELPFUL . . . FIRST RATE."
--Kirkus Reviews
"Dr. Hallowell explains the universal problem of worry in its normal and abnormal forms. His book will be helpful for anyone who has experienced unnecessary worry--and who hasn't? It is eminently readable and spiced with informative case examples. He offers sage advice about what to do about worries."
--AARON T. BECK, M.D.
Author of Anxiety Disorders and Phobias:
A Cognitive Perspective
"Wisdom, eloquence, and practicality braid together to make this book must-reading for anyone who ever worries."
--PRICILLA L. VAIL, M.A.T.
Author of Emotion:
The On/Off Switch for Learning
--Kirkus Reviews
"Dr. Hallowell explains the universal problem of worry in its normal and abnormal forms. His book will be helpful for anyone who has experienced unnecessary worry--and who hasn't? It is eminently readable and spiced with informative case examples. He offers sage advice about what to do about worries."
--AARON T. BECK, M.D.
Author of Anxiety Disorders and Phobias:
A Cognitive Perspective
"Wisdom, eloquence, and practicality braid together to make this book must-reading for anyone who ever worries."
--PRICILLA L. VAIL, M.A.T.
Author of Emotion:
The On/Off Switch for Learning
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- PublisherRandom House Audio
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0679460586
- ISBN 13 9780679460589
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