When Panic Attacks: The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy That Can Change Your Life
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“Few truly great books on psychotherapy have been published, and this is one of them. When Panic Attacks tells you how to deal with all kinds of anxiety and with most other emotional problems. It is clearly and charmingly written.”
—Albert Ellis, Ph.D, founder of the Albert Ellis Institute and bestselling author of A Guide to Rational Living
“Another masterpiece from the author who helped millions help themselves with Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy. Dr. Burns’s elegant writing style, compassion, and humor translate powerful psychotherapy methods into accessible, practical, and helpful tools for the vast number of individuals who struggle with anxiety.”
—Henny Westra, Ph.D., associate professor and director of the York University Anxiety Research Clinic
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“Few truly great books on psychotherapy have been published, and this is one of them. When Panic Attacks tells you how to deal with all kinds of anxiety and with most other emotional problems. It is clearly and charmingly written.”
—Albert Ellis, Ph.D, founder of the Albert Ellis Institute and bestselling author of A Guide to Rational Living
“Another masterpiece from the author who helped millions help themselves with Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy. Dr. Burns’s elegant writing style, compassion, and humor translate powerful psychotherapy methods into accessible, practical, and helpful tools for the vast number of individuals who struggle with anxiety.”
—Henny Westra, Ph.D., associate professor and director of the York University Anxiety Research Clinic
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It probably sounds somewhat dramatic, but I can only recall two self-help books that had a drastic effect on my life-by giving me a reasonable relief from anxiety and depression. The first one, Mind over Mood, by Greenberger and the second one, Feeling Good Workbook by Dr. Burns. Both of these books are based on solid research, reason and practicality.
Almost 20 years since his workbook, Dr. Burns has finally written another book. To my disappointment and relief, it looks like he has nothing major to report. The good news is that after all these years of cognitive therapy evolution, there are still only 10 types of cognitive distortions. The bad news is that it takes only 10 to manage a perfect job to make you miserable.
Cognitive therapy is based on the premise that our own automatic and often unnoticed thoughts WITHIN us, not the events that happen TO US, scare us to death and create a warped reality and provide fertile conditions for depression, anxiety, self-doubt, loneliness and procrastination. Virtually everyone who is depressed or anxious has these distorted thoughts. To get a relief, each distorted thought must be dealt with. As you can’t relieve your hunger by just reading a cookbook, you must apply it to your own situation for at least 15 minutes a day 5 days a week. Once learned and practiced, the technique will offer you resilience to life’s day-to-day challenges, unlike the antidepressants where the relief exists only while you take them.
Burns lists various applications to become aware, challenge and rewire your thought pattern and beliefs about yourself and the world. There is no magic, no parent-blaming, just common sense stuff dealing with the here-and-now.
What is so valuable here is his clear writing, convincing arguments, along with the examples of application that anyone can find an immediate use.
What sets this book apart from other self-help books is that it’s packaged into a system one can use in a consistent way. Moreover, the improvements one feels can actually be measured with various tests that Burns provides. Once I saw it worked after years of doom and suffering, I dared to feel hopeful. This added to my feeling good.
If I were to find faults with this book,I’d say this: in all honesty, there really was no need for this book at all. True, in this book he struggles to find some new ways to tackle problems to justify the new edition, and true, there is some fine-tuning of the previous methods, however, non-essential ones. Feeling Good Workbook is so effective, in my opinion, it has all you’ll ever need, which is enough to make a substantial change.
In the end, each Burn’s book can stand on its own, and will do a perfect job to diminish panic, depression and anxiety (all have distorted thinking as their basic element).
Even though the system might sounds a bit simplistic, its power lies in consistency of application-easier said than done for someone who is depressed and unmotivated and does not see clearly-but it does become easier if you find it within yourself to stick with it.
If this is pretty much the same book as the one written 20 years ago, why am I giving it 5 stars? It’s very simple: If you are a person whose life has been robbed of feeling good for decades, any of Dr. Burns’ books, be it this one or the ones published 20 years ago, offers a real tool for change, and this fact alone, deserves all the stars in the skies.
Dr. Burns incorporates the last 25 years of research and clinical developments since writing the best-seller FEELING GOOD (strongly recommended as well.) He has written a book which markedly refines and elaborates on FEELING GOOD, rendering the Cognitive Therapy approach found in FEELING GOOD even more effective for quick and long-term relief from distressing emotional conditions, including depression, anxiety, anger, and low-self esteem.
In case you don’t know, the book FEELING GOOD has been clinically proven to relieve major depression JUST FROM READING IT and following its instructions. I am confident that a clinical trial on WHEN PANIC ATTACKS would yield similar results for individuals suffering from anxiety disorders. The new book is very readable and far more versatile, and addresses some of the implicit gaps left from the former book.
WHEN PANIC ATTACKS easily stands on its own, and doesn’t just address panic attacks, but rather every conceivable type of anxiety, including chronic worrying, phobias, agoraphobia, shyness, public speaking anxiety, writer’s block, procrastination, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Body Dysmorphic Disorder. As far as I am concerned, Dr. Burns should win a Nobel Prize for what he has accomplished here. Beginning with the “Daily Mood Log” –a sophisticated yet elegantly simple worksheet for documenting and combating one’s emotional pain– he has developed a veritable “technology” for overcoming even the most disabling of human emotions.
Why do we suffer? We suffer because we hold onto some core self-defeating beliefs (SDB’s) that leave us rather vulnerable to painful mood swings. Accordingly, he identifies 23 common SDB’s. Many of these SDB’s (such as Achievement Addiction, Approval Addiction, Fear of Rejection, Conflict Phobia, and Emotophobia) are far more widespread than even the common cold! All of our emotional suffering can be traced back to the SDB’s that are always there, lurking somewhat hidden beneath our suffering, until we take the courageous and pro-active step to identify and revise them. He then provides 40 ways to “untwist” your thinking, divided into 15 types of methods. These types of techniques include Uncovering Techniques, Compassion-Based Techniques, Truth-Based Techniques, Semantic Techniques, Logic-Based, Quantitative Techniques, Humor-Based Techniques, Role-Playing Techniques, Spiritual Techniques, Motivational Techniques, Anti-Procrastination Techniques, Classical, Cognitive, and Interpersonal Exposure Techniques, and last but not least, the Hidden Emotion Model.
He additionally shows you how to select the techniques that will work best for YOU, and the whole trial-and-error process is easily recorded onto another handy-dandy worksheet! By encouraging you to “fail as fast as you can” (a brilliant concept in its own right!), he clearly demonstrates how anyone who is serious about their mental health and overall well-being can overcome even deep-seated emotional problems, and thereby attain robust self-esteem. He even provides specific and simple methods for “relapse prevention,” because, as he states, EVERYONE relapses! Surely there’s a BIG difference between FEELING better and GETTING better.
Because Thoreau was correct when he said, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation,” I think it would be a tragedy to limit this book to those with mental health diagnoses. In fact, I cannot think of a single individual who would not be significantly helped by the information contained in this book. ********** 10 Stars on a scale of 5!
As someone who struggled with panic attacks for over 25 years, I have read a lot of books about anxiety. I now plan to get rid of all of the others! I read Dr. Burns’ Feeling Good at my lowest point last year and it was a lifeline for me. That book focuses more on depression, and while some of the information in it applied to anxiety, I kept wishing he would write a book specifically on anxiety. This book has advice and exercises for every type of anxiety. Whether you have job performance anxiety, social anxiety, fear of riding in elevators or having blood drawn, the tools you need to overcome your fears are in here.
The key is–and Dr. Burns reinforces this point–you have to do the exercises in order to feel better. This means actually writing your answers on paper. It also means, in many cases, facing your fears. His methods combine exposure therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. His words are warm and humorous, and you will feel supported as you break down barriers you may have built up for years.
Dr. Burns has improved my life immeasurably. I, and all of my loved ones who have had to suffer along with me for so many years, are grateful! Buy this book and try the exercises.
This will really change everyone’s lives! I will share this to my team and hope they will also learned from it. Thank you for sharing.
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Depends on the causes of the shyness. In normal circumstances a shot of tequila helps. However, if the shyness is caused by a violent upbringing, you may need something stronger!?
If it is trauma, let me know when you discover the answer?
Panic vs. Anxiety
Rothbaum makes a distinction between panic attacks and anxiety attacks.
"A panic attack is very brief. Most people describe it as a wave coming over them," she says. "Most of the time it is over in a minute or two. There are a lot of physical symptoms: You get shortness of breath, lightheaded, dizzy. You feel your heart pounding, you may feel like choking, and there are a number of other unpleasant sensations. Then, afterwards, some people develop the fear of this fear, which can trigger new panic attacks. This is panic disorder."
Unlike panic attacks, anxiety attacks keep on going.
"People can maintain an anxiety attack for a long time," Rothbaum says. "It can have a lot of physical symptoms.
What it all comes down to is the very common — and sometimes very useful — human experience of fear.
"We are hard wired for fear. As long as we have been humans, we have experienced fear," Rothbaum says. "It kept our ancestors alive. We don't need it as much in our modern lives, if that system gets fired it feels just like a lion is chasing us. One fear may seem rational and another may be less rational, but both feel the same."
But some people become immobilized when they experience fear. Is that cowardice?
"It has nothing to do with cowardice," Rothbaum says. "I talk about people being brave or courageous when they can do something in the face of fear. But if we can't do something we fear, it is called avoidance. Sometimes a person can't overcome the avoidance. It is very strong in us."
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