When Anxiety Attacks: What the Health Care Community Does Not Know About Anxiety

The authors of this book have over 25 years experience treating anxiety disorders. The book covers their practical approach to the treatment of anxiety attacks as it takes you through actual treatment sessions to give you their step-by-step their Approach method of treatment. It also provides a step-by-step guide on how to break down approaching situations for people so one can reduce their general anxiety and thus prevent having to “white knuckle” the experience. The book covers the problems highly anxious people have in taking and staying on therapeutic doses of medication. They explain why medication is not always used but instead turned into a “safety kit” that the anxious person takes with them wherever they go. The book also covers the drawbacks of other treatment methods in treating anxiety disorders such as insight therapy and cognitive therapies. The authors explains why it is easier for a highly anxious person to act their way into a new way of thinking than to try and think their way into a new way of acting. Also discussed is why it is better to use anxious thoughts as a practical way to measure anxiety rather than treat it as distorted thinking and why thinking automatically changes as one’s general anxiety is reduced. This is a self help book for those who suffer from anxiety disorders but it is also a very helpful guide for mental health professionals who want to know more about what the health care community does not know about anxiety.