Overcoming Worry and Generalised Anxiety Disorder: A self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques

Overcoming

by Kevin Meares, Mark Freeston

Overcoming app now available via iTunes and the Google Play Store.

Up to 44 in every 1000 adults suffer from a condition known as Generalised Anxiety Disorder. This is much more than the normal worrying we all do - it can be a debilitating disorder leading to significant personal and social problems and sometimes financial loss.

Using established and proven CBT techniques, expert clinicians Kevin Meares and Mark Freeston help readers to understand that it is their propensity to worry, not the multitude of problems they worry about, that is the root of the problem.

The user-friendly, step-by-step approach explains why they worry, how to recognise what feeds it and develop effective methods of dealing with it. With each step the authors introduce new ideas that add to the picture of worry, and use questionnaires, exercises and tasks to help the reader understand and then challenge unhelpful habits and beliefs.

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction, Psychology, Mental Health, Counselling

464 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2008

Reviews

[Emily · Rating 5 out of 5]

I cannot begin to recommend this book enough! This book is such a saving grace for anyone with anxiety or whom overly worry. Don't be afraid of taking your time reading it, it's important to do so at your own pace and to practise what the book teaches.
If I could give it ten stars, I would. Not only does it explain how and why we worry but what we can do to manage our worry successfully.
I'm truly indebted to this glorious book.

[Addella · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great tool to use for clients who are able to follow some self help tips and are motivated enough to engage with reading and self help exercises.

Also excellent if you are struggling with these conditions yourself and seek to gain greater understanding and a variety of methods to help manage your day to day.

[Cassidy · Rating 5 out of 5]

A thorough and well scrutured approach to help those who suffer from excess worry and Generalised Anxiety Disorder. It neatly and eloquently breaks down the problem of worry and how it might affect your life, impact to make decisions and how worry can make you doubt yourself in otherwise reasonable circumstances.

[Declan Wiseman · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really helpful first step in tackling your worries and anxiety.

This is based on CBT and whilst it is a self-help guide it goes beyond the usual wishy washy and into scientific method.

That said, it is written clearly and in a way that makes it simple for the reader to follow. It encourages you to do lots of exercises, as well as providing check points at the end of each chapter to really review what you've read.

This is quite a large book with lots of ideas and towards the end there are practical tips that you'll want to go over a number of times.

The main takeaway of this book for me is that uncertainty is okay. It is a daily occurrence. You have to learn to live with it. Some challenge is required to push you outside of what may be comfortable.

I will now read this again to consolidate things!