Managing Anxiety with CBT For Dummies

Don't panic! Combat your worries and minimize anxiety with CBT! Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a hugely popular self-help technique, which teaches you to break free from destructive or negative behaviors and make positive changes to both your thoughts and your actions. This practical guide to managing anxiety with CBT will help you understand your anxiety, identify solutions to your problems, and maintain your gains and avoid relapse. Managing Anxiety with CBT For Dummies is a practical guide to using CBT to face your fears and overcome anxiety and persistent, irrational worries. You'll discover how to put extreme thinking into perspective and challenge negative, anxiety-inducing thoughts with a range of effective CBT techniques to help you enjoy a calmer, happier life. Helps you understand anxiety and how CBT can help Guides you in making change and setting goals Gives you tried-and-true CBT techniques to face your fears and keep a realistic perspective Managing Anxiety with CBT For Dummies gives you the tools you need to overcome anxiety and expand your horizons for a healthy, balanced life.

Don't panic! Combat your worries and minimize anxiety withCBT!Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a hugely popularself-help technique, which teaches you to break free fromdestructive or negative behaviors and make positive changes to bothyour thoughts and your actions. This practical guide to managinganxiety with CBT will help you understand your anxiety, identifysolutions to your problems, and maintain your gains and avoidrelapse.Managing Anxiety with CBT For Dummies is a practicalguide to using CBT to face your fears and overcome anxiety andpersistent, irrational worries. You'll discover how to put extremethinking into perspective and challenge negative, anxiety-inducingthoughts with a range of effective CBT techniques to help you enjoya calmer, happier life.* Helps you understand anxiety and how CBT can help* Guides you in making change and setting goals* Gives you tried-and-true CBT techniques to face your fears andkeep a realistic perspectiveManaging Anxiety with CBT For Dummies gives you the tools youneed to overcome anxiety and expand your horizons for a healthybalanced life.

Introduction 1Part I: Understanding Your Anxiety 7Chapter 1: All About Anxiety 9Chapter 2: Making a Map of Your Anxiety 23Part II: Tackling Your Anxiety 37Chapter 3: Going for Goals 39Chapter 4: Facing Your Fears 51Chapter 5: Finding Out if Your Fears Are Fact or Fiction 63Chapter 6: Letting Go of Worry 81Chapter 7: Anxiety Rules and How to Break Them 93Part III: Making Progress and Moving On 107Chapter 8: Looking at the Bigger Picture 109Chapter 9: Creating Your Route Map for a Brighter Future 123Part IV: The Part of Tens 135Chapter 10: Ten Tips for Tackling Anxiety 137Chapter 11: Ten Inspiring Tips for Moving On from Anxiety 145Index 157