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#1 Anxiety comes in many different forms. You may be afraid of needles, blood, heights, elevators, driving, flying, water, spiders, snakes, dogs, storms, bridges, or getting trapped in closed spaces.
#2 If you’re lonely and struggling with shyness, what would it be worth to you if I could show you how to overcome them. Imagine that you could go to bed tonight without that knot in your stomach, feeling confident and relaxed.
#3 The four theories of the cause and cure of anxiety are the Cognitive Model, the Exposure Model, the Hidden Emotion Model, and the Biological Model. They all have their advocates, and it’s not an either/or situation. If you and your doctor feel that medications are necessary, or if you strongly prefer to be treated with an antidepressant, you can use a combination of drugs and psychotherapy.
#4 The Cognitive Model is based on three simple ideas: you feel the way you think, when you’re anxious, you’re fooling yourself, and when you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	27 avril 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669393566
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

Anxiety comes in many different forms. You may be afraid of needles, blood, heights, elevators, driving, flying, water, spiders, snakes, dogs, storms, bridges, or getting trapped in closed spaces.

#2

If you’re lonely and struggling with shyness, what would it be worth to you if I could show you how to overcome them. Imagine that you could go to bed tonight without that knot in your stomach, feeling confident and relaxed.

#3

The four theories of the cause and cure of anxiety are the Cognitive Model, the Exposure Model, the Hidden Emotion Model, and the Biological Model. They all have their advocates, and it’s not an either/or situation. If you and your doctor feel that medications are necessary, or if you strongly prefer to be treated with an antidepressant, you can use a combination of drugs and psychotherapy.

#4

The Cognitive Model is based on three simple ideas: you feel the way you think, when you’re anxious, you’re fooling yourself, and when you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel.

#5

When you feel anxious, your negative thoughts and feelings reinforce each other in a vicious cycle. The thoughts that trigger these feelings are not distorted, but they are not related to any real threat.

#6

The way you think can make you feel anxious. You can change the way you feel by changing the way you think. When you put the lie to your distorted thoughts, your fears will disappear.

#7

All-or-nothing thinking, overgeneralization, mental filter, discounting the positive, jumping to conclusions, and emotional reasoning are all examples of black-and-white thinking.

#8

The What-If Technique can help you identify the beliefs and fantasies that trigger your fears. It involves imagining the worst-case scenario and seeing how you would react to it. For example, Jeffrey imagined himself sitting on the sidewalk, begging for spare change as a group of attorneys he’d beaten in court walked by in their $2,000 suits.

#9

The Self-Defeating Beliefs that Jeffrey and I identified were: Performance Perfectionism, Appraoch Addiction, Fear of Rejection, Perceived Narcissism, and Brushfire Fallacy.

#10

The experiment that Jeffrey tried to do was to tell his colleagues that he’d lost a case in court. He was shocked by the results, which showed that his colleagues did not turn against him, but instead poured their hearts out to him.

#11

The Acceptance Paradox is the idea that your weakness is your strength. It’s a Cognitive Therapy technique that’s also central to most spiritual traditions. It means that although you might feel weak, your weakness actually is your greatest strength.

#12

When you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel. The Exposure Model works differently. When you’re anxious, you’re always avoiding something that you fear. When you confront the monster you fear the most, you’ll defeat your fears.

#13

I had stumbled across a technique known as Flooding. Instead of avoiding the thing you fear, you intentionally expose yourself to it and flood yourself with anxiety. You don’t fight the anxiety or try to control it, you just surrender to it. Eventually the anxiety burns itself out and you’re cured.

#14

The Hidden Emotion Model is based on the idea that niceness is the cause of all anxiety. When you’re anxious, you’re almost always avoiding a problem that’s bothering you, but you’re not aware of it. You push the problem out of conscious awareness because you want to be nice and don’t want to rock the boat or upset anyone.

#15

Brent’s wife had told him she was pregnant, and he had a special Christmas present for him. He was extremely anxious two days after Christmas, and he went to a fast food restaurant and ordered their special Mega-Burrito to go. He explained that he didn’t want any beans on the burrito, but the man behind the counter barely spoke English.

#16

It can be difficult to know how to handle mixed feelings about being a parent. Brent’s anxiety and confusion showed that he was feeling ambivalent about being a father, but he didn’t want to upset his wife.

#17

There are three ways to defeat anxiety: Cognitive Techniques, Exposure Techniques, and the Hidden Emotion Technique. You should use all three approaches with every patient you treat.

#18

The four theories of why depression and anxiety go together are that most people can’t distinguish different kinds of emotions, that depression leads to anxiety, that anxiety leads to depression, or that they co-exist because both disorders are rooted in fear.

#19

The final theory about anxiety and depression is the Common Cause theory. It states that anxiety and depression share at least one common cause, in addition to their own unique causes.

#20

The Brief Mood Survey is a simple test that will detect the smallest changes in how you feel. It is not like the quizzes you see in popular magazines, but it is accurate. You can take it up to eight times on a single sheet of paper.

#21

The Anxious Physical Symptoms test measures the physical symptoms of anxiety. The higher the score, the more physical symptoms you’re feeling. Do high scores indicate that you have serious mental problems and won’t be able to get better.

#22

The physical symptoms of anxiety are common, and certain kinds of anxiety tend to be associated with these symptoms. For example, during a panic attack, you may feel dizzy and experience shortness of breath or tightness in the chest. However, these symptoms are not specific to anxiety.

#23

If your scores are 2 or more on the Depression test and 2 or more on the Suicidal Urges test, you may be experiencing some of the other common symptoms of depression, such as guilt, trouble sleeping, fatigue, and a paralyzing loss of motivation to do the things you once enjoyed.

#24

Anxiety comes in many forms, and it can be difficult to tell which type you have. You can check out the most common forms of anxiety listed on this page, and their popular names and official diagnostic labels.

#25

There are some problems with the diagnostic labels of anxiety and worry. For example, anxiety is common, and you may feel defective or ashamed if your doctor tells you that you have an anxiety disorder.

#26

The criteria for GAD are extremely subjective and vague. They are based on the idea that worrying can turn into a disease if it causes significant distress in your life. But most of the feelings that psychiatrists label as anxiety disorders are simply normal feelings that we all experience from time to time.

#27

There is a difference between being anxious and having an anxiety disorder. If you have anxiety, it doesn’t mean that you have a brain disease or an anxiety disorder. However, there are still real disorders that require real treatment.

#28

The idea that depression and anxiety are caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain is not true. Some researchers believe that these illnesses result from a psychological problem that can be treated with talk therapy.

#29

The chemical imbalance theory states that drugs are the best treatment for anxiety and depression, because they increase brain serotonin levels. But this hasn’t been proven true, and recent studies have shown that antidepressants don’t have any real antidepressant effects.

#30

The chemical imbalance theory of depression and anxiety is no longer considered valid. Instead, neuroscientists are studying the neural circuits in the brain, not focusing so much on chemical balances and imbalances.

#31

The brain images do not tell us anything about what’s normal or abnormal, and they do not detect any kind of chemical imbalance. They only show us that the brain is alive and well and doing its thing.

#32

The antidepressants have one big advantage over the benzodiazepines: They're not addictive. However, they don’t work for anxiety or depression. The placebo effect is the improvement that results from taking a sugar pill that has no active ingredients.

#33

The placebo effect is the belief that a medication or treatment will help you, even though it doesn’t. It is the most powerful antidepressant in existence.

#34

The widely held belief that antidepressants have strong and specific antidepressant effects is false. The figure on the top of this page illustrates the types of data that drug companies have submitted to the FDA to gain approval for their new antidepressants. In these studies, thousands of patients with moderate to severe depression were randomly assigned to treatment with a placebo or an antidepressant.

#35

The placebo effect is the improvement patients experience when they believe they’ve received an antidepressant, and it is extremely powerful. In most cases, the improvement patients experience when they believe they’ve taken an antidepressant will actually be due to the placebo effect.