Product Description
Anxiety affects 25 million people in the United States, and treatment can be difficult and daunting. Coping with Anxiety takes a sensible, clinically based approach by teaching ten simple steps to overcoming the problem and maintaining an anxiety-free life. The tips range from "Thinking realistically" to "Taking constructive coping actions" and include friendly exercises for combating a particular aspect of anxiety. In the first chapter, for example, readers learn how to deal with physical symptoms by mastering three essential relaxation techniques. Each strategy provides something the reader can do in the moment. An afterword on medication is included.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 13 reviews)

Helpful, calming book by Andrea P (Minneapolis, MN)

5 Stars
August 12, 2009
This book is great for someone looking for help right away. I also purchased "When Panic Attacks" by David Burns, which is more of a workbook to help you get to the bottom of your anxiety over time. That is fine, but I didn't have a week to work my way through that book. I needed to get calm NOW, after experiencing a sudden rash of panic attacks while driving. I didn't know how to handle these attacks and needed some tools to help me get back in the car so I could get to work and live my life. Therefore, I found that "Coping with Anxiety" was exactly what I needed. This book was easy to use because you could skip around the book and read chapters that could create an immediate impact for you. This gave me some quick techniques to help me cope. I marked several sections in the book and carried it in my car (just in case I needed some help and affirmations) until I resolved my panic.

Concise Help For Dealing With Anxiety by Susan Livingstone (San Francisco, CA USA)

4 Stars
July 24, 2009
While one of the author's other books - "The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook, Fourth Edition" - is well worth a read, this one has the advantage of being much simpler and more concise, which in my opinion makes it more user-friendly and easier to digest. None of that is intended to imply that this book is lacking in any way. Indeed, it's very comprehensive, informative, and straightforward in its presentation, making the subject accessible and the suggestions easy to understand and implement. The reader's options for helping them cope with anxiety disorder - or even just understanding how to face the everyday stresses of life - are, just as the title promises, simple and provide real relief. Highly recommended.

good advice, but very basic by Nina Stargirl (California)

3 Stars
June 30, 2009
The advice in this book is good--learn to relax, identify mental distortions, eat right, exercise, simplify your life. If you haven't been in therapy, or the idea of acknowledging your anxiety and doing something about it is new to you, I think this would be a great book. As someone who's dealt with severe anxiety for a prolonged period of time and explored various treatments, however, this book is not particularly helpful (I've been told to do yoga so many times it's almost a cliche, and yes, I've done yoga). So really, I think whether this book will be helpful is a matter of the severity of your problem and your previous experience with treatment.

Concise, simple and helpful by Kate Boswell MFT (Marina del Rey, CA)

5 Stars
March 04, 2009
This is a very good book for coping with anxiety. It delivers what the subtitle promises: 10 simple ways to relieve anxiety,fear and worry. The author acknowledges throughout, that simple is not necesarily easy. Though the ten tips are simple, they do take concerted committment and effort to put into practice. I like this book so much that I recommended it as The Book of the Month in one of my recent newsletters to my subscribers. Kate

Not a bad book. by John R. Thompson (Chesterland, oh United States)

3 Stars
February 13, 2009
On the plus side this book does give 10 things you can do to combat anxoety. On the negative side they are common knowledge type advice with meditation and what not. Objectively the techniques were very well explained and detailed. Subjectively the author says he isn't dogmatic yet he calls positive self talk 'new age crap'. Self talk is the number one way I keep anxiety from becoming a full blown panic attack so I really don't know if the author truely dismisses a powerfull coping tool or he is just simply refering to something like the Stewart Smally character on SNL and did a poor job defining what exactly he was refering. By Smally I meant the wuss who stares at himself in the full length mirror and tells himself how special he truely is.

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