3rd Edition
Overcoming Anxiety, Stress and Panic: A Five Areas Approach
Understanding why you feel as you do
Tackling your anxiety: starting out (... and how to keep going if you feel stuck)
Understanding worry and stress
Understanding panic and phobias
Understanding obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCD)
Making changes
Making changes to do with people and events around us
How to start fixing problems and finding solutions (practical problem solving)
How to ask for what you really need (being assertive)
Learning to be calmer, less annoyed and less irritated
Making changes in your life
How to get a good night's sleep: overcoming anxiety and sleep problems
Using exercise to overcome stress
Things you do that worsen your anxiety (unhelpful behaviours)
Stress, alcohol and drugs
Facing fears and overcoming avoidance
Understanding and overcoming shyness and social phobia
Noticing and changing anxious thinking
Understanding and overcoming feelings of depersonalization
Overcoming anxious overbreathing (hyperventilation)
Understanding and using anti-anxiety medication
Planning for the future
Biography
Professor Chris Williams BSc (Hons), MBCHB, MMedSc, MD, FRCPsych Professor of Psychosocial Psychiatry and Honarary Consultant Psychiatrist, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
