An Introduction to Coping with Anxiety, 2nd Edition

Book excerpt: Overcoming app now available via iTunes and the Google Play Store. Anxiety is one of the most common mental health conditions worldwide, affecting millions of people each year. But it can be treated effectively with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). Written by experienced practitioners, this introductory book can help you if anxiety has become a problem. It explains what anxiety is and how it makes you feel when it becomes unmanageable or lasts for long periods of time. It will help you to understand your symptoms and is ideal as an immediate coping strategy and as a preliminary to fuller therapy. You will learn: · What anxiety is and how it develops · Physical symptoms to look out for · How to spot and challenge thoughts that make you anxious · Ways to change how you behave in order to reduce your feelings of anxiety