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3.61 AVERAGE
I am a psychologist and someone who struggles with anxiety and bipolar disorder. Reading this book was like reading a manic patient's diary. The author overgeneralizes theories and misinterprets studies. She is not qualified to write a book about anxiety if she is wanting to incorporate research. She lacks critical thinking skills and will make loose interpretations of research to fit her own opinions about anxiety. The manic style of writing was exhausting to follow. I was constantly left wondering what is the point she is trying to make? She kept jumping from topic to topic and making statements about other health problems that co-occur with anxiety that are false, such as being addicted sugar. That is not a thing. You cannot be addicted sugar in the sense that she is comparing it to being addicted to cocaine. The book seems like something she wrote while she was manic. She tries to personalize her suggested exercises but generally speaking she is taking other people's work and writing it as if it's her own. She is not qualified to write this book. I couldn't finish this piece of garbage. If anyone wants to read a good self-help book about anxiety, check out anything by Steven Hayes. Don't waste your time with this trash.
Started off okay. Then got preachy and went into the realms of think happy thoughts and things will come to you.
Just no. I would not recommend this book to anyone with actual anxiety.
medium-paced
emotional
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
The author's story is interesting, and it's great that she's the one who reads the audiobook. Some of the tips are basic, but others are helpful.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Chronic illness
Minor: Miscarriage
I am so glad to be done with this book! It's good but it's hard to listen to soneone talk about anxiety without feeling it (actually, one of the points of the book is to eliminate feeling anxitious about feeling anxitious). It is a thorough exploration and discussion and has some great ideas, practices, advice and historical facts. I appreciated the book but can't say I really enjoyed it.
The book was better than I expected from some of the reviews saying it’s a bit flustered and jumpy, or the editing was hard to look past. Maybe it was the candidness that these topics need bc I did not find that took away from her message. I found it enjoyable that she was more casual than some usually prefer, but references a lot of research and others’ work that we can continue with further. She ponders questions that we all should be reflective on, and it’s great to stop at moments and ask it of ourselves also.
Her cruel ironies were spot on and I took comfort in knowing that - we are ALL little bubbles of glass, some with more or less cracks than others, slowly trying to fill in space with the gold we re-create for ourselves; & with a little help from loved ones or resources like her personal accounts of similar struggles, those moments can become clearer & more reasonably attainable to work through at our own level -
It’s a personal journey w/ helpful advice (or what didn’t always work, for her) or mindsets to be cognitive of, while sharing in a collective human struggle.. some less talked about than others, and with varying degrees for everyone to relate too. We are sickeningly aware of multitudes of layers / afflictions that are just human, but we are all still more than our anxieties. We will be better for being more in tuned with our minds, the environment around; and the struggles may not end, but everything does add up to build onto our character. One we must not be shamed to express.
I AM an HSP (it’s a nervous system thing
Her cruel ironies were spot on and I took comfort in knowing that - we are ALL little bubbles of glass, some with more or less cracks than others, slowly trying to fill in space with the gold we re-create for ourselves; & with a little help from loved ones or resources like her personal accounts of similar struggles, those moments can become clearer & more reasonably attainable to work through at our own level -
It’s a personal journey w/ helpful advice (or what didn’t always work, for her) or mindsets to be cognitive of, while sharing in a collective human struggle.. some less talked about than others, and with varying degrees for everyone to relate too. We are sickeningly aware of multitudes of layers / afflictions that are just human, but we are all still more than our anxieties. We will be better for being more in tuned with our minds, the environment around; and the struggles may not end, but everything does add up to build onto our character. One we must not be shamed to express.
I AM an HSP (it’s a nervous system thing
"The funny thing is that behavioral studies show that we think making a decision is more anxiety riddled than not making a decision but in fact the opposite is true. Studies show that when we decide to do something and it turns out badly it mostly doesn't haunt us down the track. ... Failing to act on a decision will haunt us."
The concept of "distress tolerance" which is to "remain in anxiety provoking situations until your fear capacity becomes exhausted" is practiced as an experiment: "Stay and see what happens."
Chris Barez Brown writes, "Ruts are best broken with small moments in whimsy not seismic changes in behavior."
The concept of "distress tolerance" which is to "remain in anxiety provoking situations until your fear capacity becomes exhausted" is practiced as an experiment: "Stay and see what happens."
Chris Barez Brown writes, "Ruts are best broken with small moments in whimsy not seismic changes in behavior."
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
This is a book I return to often.
hopeful
informative
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced