Evolving Self Confidence: How to Become Free From Anxiety Disorders and Depression

By Terry Dixon and Terry Dixon Dr

Book Overview

Today, cognitive (thinking) and behavioural problems involving high anxiety and fear are classed as anxiety disorders. This is based on the medical model, which views these problems as mental illnesses, 'disorders' where something goes wrong in the brain and the answer lies in 'fixing' the thing that has gone wrong - often with medication.

However...

Take Margaret, the lovely middle-aged woman (emotionally fragile from early life stress and conflict) who suffers emotional abuse at the hands of her partner - abuse that not only scares her but also makes her feel that she cannot do anything right and that everything she tries will fail miserably or is totally worthless. Is her generalized anxiety disorder simply the result of something going wrong in her brain that can be fixed by medication?

What about the Gary, in his early twenties, riddled with anxiety, whose father constantly put him down and criticized him with such venom as a child that he's now petrified others will do the same. Is his social phobic behaviour truly dis-ordered and irrational?

Or Sarah, the teenager brought up by overly strict religious parents that have so drummed the fear of God into her that all she can do to obtain relief (from punishment by the Lord) is turn to rituals. Are her obsessive, fearful thoughts and compulsive behaviours really all down to mental illness?

Through unique insight into the development of anxiety disorders (and depression), this book shows how to heal the actual cause of these problems and become truly free from: -

Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Panic Disorder and PTSD

Self-harm and BDD

Eating Disorders

Specific Phobias

Depression

A life ruled by shyness or stress

It takes us on a journey from childhood to adult, through the experiences, thoughts and feelings that shape the creation of these problems. Discover how they start and grow, which disorder develops and why, the ways we strengthen them and how they become part of us.

And then, the answer...learn how to turn things around, to extinguish all the anxiety and fear and move beyond it to become stronger and wiser for your experiences... beyond it to become the unique, worthy individual that it is your birthright to be.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0955813603
• ISBN13: 9780955813603
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Help-For
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.6"