The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It

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A lot of people have a workable relationship with their worry – it comes and goes, sometimes helping them focus on a problem area in their lives, or sometimes just reflecting a broader state of general anxiety. It’s like a neighbor or a co-worker who you see occasionally, but isn’t a huge part of your life. Stand in front of a mirror, and read the worry out loud, 25 times. Eat one of the Tic Tacs each time, to make your counting conscious and deliberate. Now, worry isn’t necessarily a bad thing – it can alert us to some danger or problem that we then proceed to fix. But chances are that’s not why you’re listening to reading a summary on how to stop worrying. methods, which offer recovery to many. Unfortunately, only about a third of those who need anxiety help actually get Some readers may find the book’s focus on cognitive-behavioral therapy to be too narrow, as other therapeutic approaches may also be effective in managing worry and anxiety.

Exiling your worry will never work – you need to work on cultivating a healthy, workable relationship with it. Sure, it’s easy to get overwhelmed or caught up in the troubles of life. But though worries are part of it, they don’t need to be a big part. About the Author And so on. The thoughts or situations might be different, but the feeling is always the same: Worry. The book provides a comprehensive understanding of the psychological and neurological mechanisms underlying worry and anxiety.

Carbonell presents what are probably several really effective strategies of dealing with worrying. He gives a straightforward reasoning about what feeds worrying, why common behaviors and traditional approaches (even somewhat newer ones such as cognitive restructuring) just do not work. His approaches make a lot of sense to me, and seem like they would be highly effective - certainly worth trying. That right there makes this book well worth its cost. You see, you can only worry about the future – about something that could happen, however unlikely. But the truth is, you don’t know what will happen in the future. And it’s incredibly difficult to prove that something won’t happen, no matter how hard you try. In fact, to the worrying mind, the more you try and fail, the more evidence there is that the bad thing could happen! If you’re like a large proportion of people, worry is a problem. You can’t stop it, you can’t control it, and no matter how many times you’re told to “just stop worrying,” it won’t go away. It’s a losing battle.

I can say that after reading this book, I have taken away a more insightful approach to my worry and why it happens, and I have started to use techniques that are helping me handle it so that it doesn't consume me. And also that I am having less of the same worrisome thoughts over and over. You know the feeling. You’re going about your day, as normal – you could be on the bus, or sitting down to dinner with your family. Maybe you’re lying in bed, trying to sleep. Suddenly a thought comes – unprompted and unwelcome. Anxiety is a powerful force. It makes us question ourselves and our decisions, causes us to worry about the future, and fills our days with dread and emotional turbulence. Based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this book is designed to help you break the cycle of worry.

How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It

The Role of Thoughts: The book explains how our thoughts and beliefs can contribute to our worry and anxiety. Carbonell offers strategies for identifying and challenging negative thoughts and replacing them with more positive and realistic ones.