A review by baldingape
Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast by Barry McDonagh

2.0

The ideas in this book are good and I can understand how implementing them could work.

It's a bit long for what it is though. I understand the author simply wanted to give plenty of different scenarios you could use DARE in. But the repetitive nature of the book makes it somewhat tedious to read through.

Another little niggle for me was the insistence that anxiety isn't a mental illness. It can be. That doesn't mean that it always is though. Someone having a bad time in life getting anxiety and anxiety or panic attacks are different than someone with the mental illness of anxiety. That isn't to say that one suffers more than the other during their anxiety attacks, but one is more temporary and could potentially be cured by DARE. The author seems to think you can undoubtedly cure anxiety through DARE. And honestly, you probably can. But for someone with Anxiety, the mental illness DARE will only go so far, I could certainly help manage your symptoms when they do occur, but cure it? I don't think so.

I would recommend this book to anyone suffering anxiety of Anxiety (Anxiety with a capital A is the mental illness, anxiety in lowercase is the temporary, environmentally, situational triggered illness of anxiety) though.