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The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You Into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do about It
David A. Carbonell
3.63 AVERAGE
59 reviews for:
The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You Into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do about It
David A. Carbonell
3.63 AVERAGE
This book has good advice. but its not anything new you could probably learn this through some google and youtube searches. Also was repetitive and felt like I was reading same information, but arranged a little different.
informative
fast-paced
Had to return the book. Might revisit when I get a chance.
Feeling more confident about dealing with my worries
I knew I had a problem with worrying and it was starting to affect my relationship with others. I went into this book feeling guilty, ashamed, and stupid. However, this book teaches you how to embrace these worries and deal with them in counterintuitive ways so that they don't plague your mind. Now that I'm done with it, I feel a LOT better and more confident about handling my worries and to not be so fearful of them.
I would recommend this book to anyone who tends to worry a lot about the same issues over and over again. Anyone who spirals in thought can surely benefit from this book.
I knew I had a problem with worrying and it was starting to affect my relationship with others. I went into this book feeling guilty, ashamed, and stupid. However, this book teaches you how to embrace these worries and deal with them in counterintuitive ways so that they don't plague your mind. Now that I'm done with it, I feel a LOT better and more confident about handling my worries and to not be so fearful of them.
I would recommend this book to anyone who tends to worry a lot about the same issues over and over again. Anyone who spirals in thought can surely benefit from this book.
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
I am a worrier, and I have been for most of my life. As a teenager, my mom always used to tell me 'not to make mountains out of mole hills' because my worries were often over insignificant things.
Now, as a woman in my early 30's, I still find I worry about insignificant things. But I also have a lot of fear and anxiety about things that likely will never actually happen.
2020 really didn't help me deal well with my worry, so I kicked off 2021 with this personal development book, and I learned a lot!
I appreciated how this book started with chapters explaining what worry is and what causes it. There are actually different types of worry, which I had no idea about! The author includes case studies from individuals he has worked with too during his days as a clinical psychologist. I felt understood reading this book, and like I'm not the only 'chronic worrier' out there! In later chapters, the author goes into explaining techniques and methods that you can try to help handle your worry. He explains that not every method is going to work for every individual but that you can only help yourself by giving each method a try.
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.
This book taught me that the most important thing to do with worry is to break the cycle. And the best approach to take is a counter-intuitive one, which is why many people continue to struggle with worry. The way to solve it is not how you would think! Carbonell helps the reader learn these less-obvious approaches.
I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who considers themselves a worrier, and would like to do something about it. He has a second book, Outsmart Your Anxious Brain, that I might pick up later this year. I think it'll be a good one to read down the road to 'check in' with myself about how I'm handling my worry after working through this book this month.
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Struggled to remain engaged, only read about halfway through before moving on.
I loved this book because it really takes apart what worry IS and teaches you counterintuitive methods to address it. Instead of telling you to ignore the worries it shows you how to notice when the moment they enter your mind and teaches you to confront them rather than resist them.
I don't suffer from anxiety attacks, but as a Black woman in America I find myself worrying about myself, husband, and children, especially with the current state of race relations in this country. But this book shows the difference between THOUGHTS and EMOTIONS and that our emotions are responses to our thoughts. That was eye opening for me.
I feel much better equipped to handle my worry and have the tools I need to keep it from getting to chronic worry levels.
I don't suffer from anxiety attacks, but as a Black woman in America I find myself worrying about myself, husband, and children, especially with the current state of race relations in this country. But this book shows the difference between THOUGHTS and EMOTIONS and that our emotions are responses to our thoughts. That was eye opening for me.
I feel much better equipped to handle my worry and have the tools I need to keep it from getting to chronic worry levels.
Not very useful. A large portion of the book discusses worry in metaphors, and there is very little practical advice. The advice that was useful is information that I have read elsewhere in larger detail (breathing exercises, meditation, etc). This book seems to be for people who are otherwise mentally healthy but have chronic worry rather than someone who suffers from depression or bipolar disorder who also has chronic worry. His advice for those people is to see a trained therapist. Yeah, thanks.