The 10 Best Anxiety Busters: Simple Strategies to Take Control of Your Worry

Most of the people in my counseling practice come for help with anxiety. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, anxiety is the most common behavioral health problem in the country, affecting about forty million adults and costing more than $42 billion a year. The association writes that people with anxiety disorders are three to five times more likely to go to the doctor than people who don’t have such disorders — and six times more likely to be hospitalized for psychiatric disorders. Clearly, Americans need help coping with stress and anxiety, and they need more tools than just medication. In The 10 Best Anxiety Busters, Margaret Wehrenberg gives us some excellent tools to cope. Having experienced “panic attacks and bouts of dreadful worry” herself, she writes that she came up with these techniques through her own issues as well as through working with clients. Her strategies are also supported by research. She groups her techniques according to whether the reader is experiencing anxiety in the mind, body, or behavior. She also separates them based on whether it is social anxiety, generalized anxiety, panic disorder, or another subcategory. And despite these divisions, her overall approach remains holistic and comprehensive. I know from my own work that clients with anxiety often are not eating well or sleeping well, have self talk that increases their anxiety, and may be hyper-vigilant to feedback from their body. They notice their...
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