Anxiety Rx: A New Prescription for Anxiety Relief from the Doctor Who Created It

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I would recommend listening to this book if you are experiencing feelings of anxiety because it does work if you work it. Instead, I found I had more strength, knowledge, confidence and faith in myself to walk a path of growth to healing, and to have so much compassion and love for others and, most importantly, myself.

The Holistic Psychologist On February 8, 2013, I was a highly anxious and burned-out fifty-two-year-old physician. I wrote this book to make my father’s eventual suicide and the suffering of my family mean to help others like me who experienced chronic worry to understand and fix the pain that was sucking the life out of their lives. I wrote this book to make my father's suicide and the suffering of my family mean something: to help others who experienced chronic worry to understand and fix the pain that is sucking the life out of them. Winner of the 2020 Nautilus Award in Psychology ** Anxiety Is Unavoidable: Suffering Is Optional On February 8, 2013, I was a highly anxious and burned-out fifty-two-year-old physician.My father was schizophrenic and bipolar, and the chaos and pain of his illness created tremendous alarm in my system.

By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. It came as no surprise that my first marriage landed me in a domestic violence refuge and my second marriage was emotional unavailable. For Russell, healing starts by finding out where anxiety lives inside your body and during our conversation, Russell walks you through how exactly you can start doing that. And, we also discuss the value of activities like breathwork, meditation and yoga, and also some promising therapies such as Internal Family Systems and Somatic Experiencing.

To solve it, learn to recognize when it’s happening, accept those thoughts are irrational, practice grounding techniques (google it), breath work and yoga. On the one hand, when I downloaded my kindle highlights and notes from this book, it totaled 9 pages, so obviously I got a lot of insights out of this book, and I think they will be helpful to me for a long time. The concept had potential, and I was intrigued by the lack of citing studies, etc because at first, it read like having coffee with a knowledgeable friend sharing their own personal experiences in their journey with anxiety.

This book has helped me see everything I needed to understand these feelings and gain a deeper understanding of myself. What Anxiety Rx did for me was to distill wisdom I had learned from other sources into actionable steps that I could implement immediately. I don’t browse self-help genre anymore and something written on psychology is a no go area for me as I have found that most of it is toxic psychology which cajoles readers into believing that being self-centred, self-absorbed, self-loving and walling themselves within a fortress of boundaries are the ways to live a fulfilling life. But learning to understand it and use it for the better is an option and that’s what this book focuses on.

Author speaks of reverting back to our innocent disposition, we are born with; a pure clean slate—I believe he is talking about Fitra. O lado negativo é que o autor exagera na repetição e nas referências pessoais, tornando o texto desnecessariamente longo e cansativo em algumas passagens. Kennedy I would have still been stuck into this ending non escaping circle which was restricting my life experiences. Our nervous system or I rather say ego, forces us to detach, dissociate and regress into survival mode but we are built for the connection with other people; facial expressions, eye contact, touch and other ways of bonding disarm our ego.

I hadn't heard of either person, but was hooked by the description: "Everything you think about anxiety is wrong. The book has a storytelling theme to it, in which both the neuroscience and the wisdom are shared in compassionate and ultimately practical ways. The key word in this book is : REPETITIVE ( yes , capital letters ) , every chapter tells the same story of the previous chapter , did I also mention that he frequently talks about how he used LSD?One of the most beautiful parts of this masterpiece is the way Doctor Russell Kennedy let's us into his personal life, so absolutely moving, his candour is appreciated and his tenacity is truly inspirational, not to mention I laughed so much throughout the read too, pure comedy gold! He really knows his stuff because not only is he a doctor but he had really bad anxiety for decades and figured out how to heal himself. Your mind is an expert level thinker, and you, especially when you are in ALARM, are a mere 𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘶𝘳. It is quite logical, not just focusing on the problem, gives possible solution, but I am not sure if it works yet. BUT, luckily I didn’t quit 1) because I never let myself quit on a book holding out hope that it gets better and 2) because the best part of this book comes in the last 36 chapters.