If You're Curious About These Questions...
You should listen to this audiobook
- Have you ever wondered why your brain’s natural survival instincts might actually be the very thing causing your anxiety?
- What if you could literally reprogram your memories to stop perceiving danger where it doesn't exist?
- Are you curious about how cutting-edge neuroscience is transforming everything we thought we knew about treating anxiety?
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Key Takeaways from Anxious
- Learn how psychoanalytic traditions, cognitive behavioral therapy, and cutting-edge neuroscience offer practical strategies to help you regulate anxiety.
- Discover why philosophers once considered anxiety an essential part of making free choices before Sigmund Freud redefined it as a disorder rooted in repressed trauma.
- Understand the three primary factors that determine your susceptibility to anxiety disorders: genetics, your psychological disposition toward uncertainty, and your environmental learning experiences.
- Explore how the criteria for diagnosing anxiety disorders constantly evolve, and how psychiatric labels help individuals access crucial mental health support.
- Find out how your sympathetic nervous system triggers fight-or-flight survival instincts, using both direct experience and observational learning to identify threats.
Anxious — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: Anxiety used to be viewed as a vital aspect of humanity.
Chapter 3: The standards for diagnosing anxiety disorders are continuously evolving.
Chapter 4: We all possess robust survival instincts to counter threats.
Chapter 5: Having an anxiety disorder keeps you on constant high alert for threats.
Chapter 6: Fear and anxiety are emotions that people process consciously.
Chapter 7: Cognitive-behavioral therapies are highly effective for treating anxiety.
Chapter 8: Exposure therapy works remarkably well, but it has limitations.
Chapter 9: Memories can be recalled and revised with new information.
Chapter 10: Active coping strategies can help you manage and regulate anxiety.
Anxious Summary & Overview
Anxious (2015) is an in-depth study of anxiety disorders. It explores how anxiety is diagnosed and examines how our in-built survival mechanisms can sabotage us by making us perceive danger where none exists. Most importantly, it provides an overview of the most innovative treatment options available – from reprogramming our memories to practicing meditation.
Who Should Listen to Anxious?
- Anyone living with anxiety who wants to understand more about it
- Teachers and caregivers who want to support the young people in their care
- Psychology buffs who want to better understand this pervasive disorder
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