The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It

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I appreciated how this book started with chapters explaining what worry is and what causes it. There are actually different types of worry, which I had no idea about! The author includes case studies from individuals he has worked with too during his days as a clinical psychologist. I felt understood reading this book, and like I'm not the only 'chronic worrier' out there! In later chapters, the author goes into explaining techniques and methods that you can try to help handle your worry. He explains that not every method is going to work for every individual but that you can only help yourself by giving each method a try.

Debra Kissen, PhD, MHSA, clinical director at Light on Anxiety Treatment Center, and coauthor of The Panic Workbook for TeensThe book was easy, funny when necessary, and full of advices and practical behaviours. I related to what it described and I was like : "what? Me too!!" Exiling your worry will never work – you need to work on cultivating a healthy, workable relationship with it. Sure, it’s easy to get overwhelmed or caught up in the troubles of life. But though worries are part of it, they don’t need to be a big part. About the Author As you may guess, none of this works to improve your relationship with worry. You’re using gasoline to try to put out a fire – just like worry wants you to. How about you’re driving along and you realize you accidentally ran a red light? A car accident definitely could happen at this stage, but you’re still not thinking “What if I have a car accident?” Your instincts are taking over, and you’re trying to stop that accident happening.

And so on. The thoughts or situations might be different, but the feeling is always the same: Worry.The Benefits of Seeking Support: The book highlights the benefits of seeking support from friends, family, and mental health professionals in managing worry and anxiety. Carbonell provides practical tips for finding and utilizing support systems. I struggle with anxiety. Some days it's well under control (with a daily dose of meds and some good ol' fashioned support system and positive self talk). Other days, I am so buried under worry I feel like I can't possibly get up. and feel the anxiety, being sure to stay there and letting the anxiety leave first. This is what Claire Weekes called floating. It’s chronic worry that’s the problem. This is where the worry is constant, unavoidable and crippling. This is what you need to examine, and ultimately change. If this sounds like you, there are likely two possible relationships you have with your worry. You see, you can only worry about the future – about something that could happen, however unlikely. But the truth is, you don’t know what will happen in the future. And it’s incredibly difficult to prove that something won’t happen, no matter how hard you try. In fact, to the worrying mind, the more you try and fail, the more evidence there is that the bad thing could happen!

Always keep in mind that exposure is practice with fear, and do nothing to oppose, avoid, or distract from the fear during exposure. The first option is that you interpret a worry as a legitimate and important warning. You take this seriously, so you look for ways to stop the thing from happening, reassure yourself that the thing won’t happen or try to protect yourself from the thing if and when it does happen.Finally, someone has written a book about worry that I can give to my clients that I’m certain will be helpful to them as they struggle to better understand and deal with their constant worrying. So very many of my clients worry constantly and have searched in vain for tools and techniques to help them, but now Dave Carbonell has given them what they were looking for—a treasure chest of tips and ideas for handling worry. This is an eminently readable book that I’m sure I will recommend to many of my clients for years to come.” To me, this book could be greatly improved if the prolonged repetition were edited. For example, it seems the first seven chapters could easily be pruned into only two. (Later insert: **But see my wondering about this in the next paragraph, as well as the first comment to this review.)

To say that this book has changed my life would be too much, but it certainly did show me new horizons when dealing with my own anxieties. And it gave me a push to be braver to read more about this topic, which a year ago would have been a huge trigger for me. Worry predictions aren’t based on what’s likely to happen. They’re based on what would be terrible if it did happen. They’re not based on probability—they’re based on fear.” Thoughts, however upsetting, foul, disgusting, annoying, and so on, are just never dangerous. It’s discomfort, not danger.”

By publishing your document, the content will be optimally indexed by Google via AI and sorted into the right category for over 500 million ePaper readers on YUMPU. The book provides a comprehensive understanding of the psychological and neurological mechanisms underlying worry and anxiety. The Mental Health Forum is run by Together For Change, Suite 223, 266 Banbury Road, Oxford, United Kingdom, OX2 7DL This is a real problem when you yourself recognize that your worry is based on an "irrational" fear. "I know it doesn't make any sense," people say. "That's what really bothers me about these thoughts.” The problem you face is not the problem described in the catastrophe clause of your worry. The problem you face is the discomfort you experience in response to the worrisome thought, and your natural inclination to take that thought seriously and resist it. When you resist the thought with your usual selection of anti-worry responses, this is when you once again experience the difficulty of The harder I try, the worse it gets.”