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Needless to say, I'm glad I still held onto it. I felt like I was able to better understand how to cope with a lot of things that I never knew how best to cope with. There are so many ways to look after your mental health and well-being that I have always had the tendency to overthink it. In the past year, I had been working on a lot of things I know needed working on (i.e. overthinking). Anyhow, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and for what it read as. Largely common sense and parts of it were pretty eye opening. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) only recommends trying treatments based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). I think this is an essiential read for any sufferers of anxiety, especially complicated by health worries and a constant fear of panic. Really never found an author to put into words the awful feelings of nervous illness and anxiety. The heart worry and the feeling of tension is all explained and in my mind, it has calmed me to know I am just one of many sufferers of a difficult feeling that can indeed be put to rest. I really hope many read this as it is far beyond modern knowledge and gives a perfect calming insight into both the struggle and the remedy in facing these feelings and floating past them as if they are just part of the process of recovery. I hope one day I can be truly free of these feelings but for now, it is good to know there is a light at the end of the tunnel. The guidance you need is in this small book. The perseverance and courage you can, with help, find within yourself. The strength to recover is within you, once you are shown the way. I assure you of this.” – Dr Weekes.
Taking steps to enjoy a healthier lifestyle can help boost both your physical and mental health which can also help combat feelings of anxiety. One of the reasons for this is that some people find noticing their negative thoughts too intense, and it can make them feel worse. If you try mindfulness and still feel unwell, ask your GP or therapist about other things you could try.
I recommend this to anyone who suffers with anxiety, nerves, or is experiencing what seems like a ‘nervous breakdown’. Dr Weekes talks directly to you, the reader, and is endlessly sympathetic and encouraging. This is shown from the very beginning: Claire W is also an Aussie! Yay. And there is a new bio coming out about her. She must have been a breath of fresh air to patients. The next time you feel a spasm of fear, instead of shying away from it and trying to forget it or control and prevent it coming, as you have done in the past, I want you to examine it as it sweeps through you and even to describe it to yourself, noting in detail its various component sensations. When you do this, you will find that the wave of fear strikes hardest when it first strikes, and that if you stand your ground and relax, it quietens and disappears. When you have learnt to face fear this way, and see it as no more than a physical feeling, you begin to lose your fear of fear. You step outside a vicious circle. A spasm may come from time to time, but you learn to disregard it. Eventually it means so little that you hardly notice it in passing." Support groups can often arrange face-to-face meetings, where you can talk about your difficulties and problems with other people.
Self Help for Your Nerves” is a good self-help book for all types of readers. “Claire Weekes” is the author of this beautiful book. This author has all the skills and knowledge to make your life better. The author does an incredible job of making the book applicable. It doesn’t do it in a step-by-step manner, but asks the questions we should be asking ourselves when we come across a choice. It creates a lot of thoughts. In this book, the author tells how we can make ourself more productive and achieve anything in life. It helps you to manage your time, business, relationships, and even life. This book goes in details on how to help cope with over thinking which can lead to numerous health problems.Drinking too much caffeine can make you more anxious than normal. This is because caffeine can disrupt your sleep and also speed up your heartbeat. Mental health is one of those uncomfortable subjects that we, as human beings, try to avoid discussing; it is because of this reason that I feel it is important to review this book. There's a part about how if you face your "terrible feelings" and try to make them worst you will find that you cannot. We shrink from feelings for fear of making them worse but by facing them we lose some of the fear and it may actually have a calming effect. So much of living with anxiety is the anticipation, the nerves are intimidating and feel over-powering. CBT aims to help us learn to recognise these unhelpful patterns, and break down and approach problems in a different way to improve how we feel. Does CBT work?
Claire B named her inner critic Frank and tells him to F**k off all the time, too - each to their own.
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Self Help for Your Nerves’ helped me through a really tough time in my life. I bought several other ‘self help’ books during this time (in an attempt to avoid the inevitable trip to the doctor), but all of them seemed insincere, synthetic and unhelpful. Dr Claire Weekes’ book became a light in an interminable darkness. It gave me the courage to seek professional help for my anxieties and stress - for which I shall be forever grateful to her:
If you are reading this book because you are having a nervous breakdown or because your nerves are ‘in a bad way’, you are the very person for whom it has been written and I shall therefore talk directly to you as if you were sitting beside me.” She is considered now to be the pioneer of modern anxiety treatment via Cognitive Therapy, and she even has a little rule; Claire B turned it into an acronym faffle.
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I read this book during an anxious period and the simple and effective advice was something that was so easy to implement straight away and although it didn't solve all my problems (obviously), it did help me manage my symptoms of anxiety. My favourite thing, which sounds so silly but is so effective, is to imagine 'floating' when you are anxious about something. So if you're nervous about travelling, you just 'float' there. It sounds ridiculous, but there it is: it helped! She also urges the reader to accept their physical feelings of discomfort. They won't hurt you. You shouldn't try to 'fix' the problem causing them as this usually leads to more rumination and circular thinking which worsens your anxiety. Another piece of her advice was to get out of bed as soon as you wake up, but I'm still working on that one (thanks Reddit). When I read At Last A Life, it totally changed my life with its unorthodox (or so I thought) approach to anxiety that actually worked. It didn’t contain the usual exhortations that I just needed to eat right, meditate and be mindful and then my anxiety would be ‘managed’. Instead it just had some very simple advice: stop trying to get better, let the suffering wash over you, stop fearing your own fear, and let your body heal itself. In this section, you will find CBT-inspired self-help strategies, techniques and guidance you can try. The reason for my high rating is because I found this book to be completely different to any other self help book that I have read in the past. Often these books outline the same sort of processes so you keep being fed the same sort of information but this book seems to have a more relaxed approach to dealing with stress, anxiety and depression...and in some ways a more realistic approach. It teaches you the methods of 'floating' not 'facing', 'accepting' not 'fighting' and 'comfort' not 'conflict'. Avoiding drinks containing caffeine, such as coffee, tea, fizzy drinks and energy drinks, may help reduce your anxiety levels. Healthy living
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