Your Brain Is Lying: Outsmart Anxiety, Silence Negative Thinking, and Take Back Control

By Ellis Marr

Your brain is not broken. It is running an old threat-detection system on bad data, and it is doing exactly what it was built to do.

Ellis Marr spent nine years as a court transcriber, typing other people's worst days verbatim, and then had a panic attack in Court 3 and waited eleven months for treatment. Most of what is in this book was worked out during the waiting.

The method is Cross-Examination. Every distorted thought goes on the stand and you play defence, using the same fixed five questions every time, because at two in the morning you will not be able to invent anything. It takes ninety seconds and it works whether or not you believe in it, which is the only useful property a protocol can have.

There is a chapter on why insight has not helped you, and a straight passage on where a book stops and a doctor starts.

A repeatable ninety-second protocol for interrupting a spiral, and the reason it does not require you to feel calm first.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3991911728
• ISBN13: 9783991911722
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Vista Editions
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"