Anxiety: How to Retrain Your Brain to Eliminate Anxiety, Depression and Phobias Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Develop Better Self-Awareness - Hardcover

by Ryan James (Author)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is the most studied, most validated approach to mental health on the planet.

It's also one of the most misunderstood. Most people think it's just "positive thinking." It isn't.

Anxiety - How to Retrain Your Brain to Eliminate Anxiety, Depression and Phobias Using Cognitive Behavioral explains what CBT actually does. Single-volume guide written to be read straight through. Concrete, applicable, and built for the reader who wants results faster than theory.

Inside:

- The cognitive triangle - thoughts, feelings, behaviors. The basic loop everyone runs.
- Cognitive distortions named, catalogued, dismantled. Catastrophizing. Mind-reading. All-or-nothing thinking.
- The thought record. The single most useful piece of paper in mental health.
- Behavioral activation for depression. Why action precedes motivation, not the other way around.
- Exposure techniques for anxiety. Done right, gentle, gradual.
- How to be your own therapist between sessions. Or instead of, when therapy isn't accessible.

Read it slowly. Practice one technique a week. Six months in, the inside of your head feels less like a hostile place.