Book Review: The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques

Managing anxiety symptoms with medication can be effective, but is not always a great long-term solution. Anxiety happens for a variety of reasons. It may be experienced when there are too many stressors making someone feel overwhelmed with no change in sight. Or it may be a matter of cutting down on caffeine intake. Unfortunately, not knowing the cause or fix for anxiety typically tends to make people more anxious. In The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques: Understanding How Your Brain Makes You Anxious and What You Can Do to Change It, Margaret Wehrenberg acknowledges the complexity of managing anxiety and offers suggestions to manage the body, mind, and behavior with a brief overview of how the brain works. Understanding the brain is not an easy task, so she does not attempt to provide all the complex details. Rather, her focus is on how techniques and practices can change the brain when it does not work the way we would like. When it comes to managing bodily symptoms, it is understandable why people with anxiety turn to medication. The physical symptoms are uncomfortable and medication can provide some relief. Wehrenberg does not say that people should never take it, but she does argue that a medication only plan does not give people the opportunity to learn about the cause of their anxiety. She does recognize, though, that medication is needed in some cases before people can do the hard work of learning about the origin of their anxiety, and about other ways to m...
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