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Worry : hope and help for a common condition
Edition
1st. Ballantine Books ed.
Publication Information
New York : Ballantine Books, c2002, 1998.
Physical Description
xxxiv, 331 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes
"With a new introduction by the author."--cover.
Contents
- Preface
- Introduction 2002
- world of worry
- When life feels more threatening than it should
- "Worry is good"
- basic equation of worry : increased vulnerability + decreased power = increased worry
- Brain burn : the biological basis of worry
- infinite web of "what-if?"
- How much of a worrier are you? : a self-assessment quiz
- Toxic types of worry
- When pain can't be forgotten : worry, old bones, and broken trust
- worried child
- Worry in pairs : wife and husband, parent and child
- Worry at work : it can make you or break you
- Worry and depression
- Intruder in the dust : obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Worry run amok : panic and social phobia
- Living in fear : generalized anxiety disorder
- Is there a hidden pleasure in worry? : worry as a means of staying alert
- Worry at its most strange : paranoia
- ominous core of life
- example of Samuel Johnson --
- Remedies that work
- basic steps of worry control
- ERP : evaluate, plan, remediate
- Speak well to yourself : learning to think constructively
- Changing your physical state to change your mental state
- Reassurance and connectedness
- Of golf, God, and letting go
- Medication : what to use, when to use, it, and when not to use it at all
- Fifty tips on the management of worry without using medication
- Appendix : Where to go for help
- With thanks to
- Index.