Getting Over GAD: Body-Focused Solutions for Generalised Anxiety Disorder

Struggling with generalised anxiety that isn’t responding to treatment? Today talk therapy and medications are the go-to treatments for generalised anxiety disorder. However, many people with generalised anxiety find that taking pills and talking about their worries does little to alleviate their chronic suffering. The body-focused approach to dealing with symptoms of anxiety is based on the idea that our thoughts and feelings are heavily influenced by the activity of the autonomic nervous system, and that many, if not most people who are diagnosed with anxiety disorders have dysregulated nervous systems rather than brains that are malfunctioning because of irrational thinking or chemical imbalances. Getting Over Body-Focused Solutions for Generalised Anxiety Disorder explains why many approaches to dealing with GAD fail to address core biological issues in generalised anxiety, and why many sufferers don’t respond to the usual recommendations of pills, counselling, and physical exercise. This concise booklet also includes a number of body-based approaches for dealing with generalised anxiety that have been developed by psychologists, body therapists, and other practitioners working in the challenging field of trauma therapy (approximately 10,700 words, including resources).