[convalescence]

**** I am not advertising this book ****

I picked up a self-help guide from the Wal-Mart website titled "The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anxiety: Breaking Free from Worry, Panic, PTSD, & Other Anxiety Symptoms."

Honestly, I need this. Anxiety has ruled my life off and on for two years now. It's time for a change. Realistically speaking, it is impossible to live a life without anxiety, but it is possible to live a life without anxiety interfering with your daily life.

I haven't read much from it, but I thought it would be nice to make a thread keeping updated on everything that I have learned from the book so far. Maybe my notes and techniques that I learn might help somebody out who reads this thread?

The only things I remember so far:

- This book claims that anxiety disorders are just everyday event worries gone haywire.
- DBT is used primarily for treating borderline personality disorder, but is also useful for anxiety disorders as well.

[BeaFlower]

Thanks for letting us know what you learn, convalescence I'm not reading a self-help book, but I'm in therapy (not DBT)...but actually, though therapy is helping me with other problems, it's working less regarding anxiety.

Originally Posted by convalescence

**** I am not advertising this book ****

I picked up a self-help guide from the Wal-Mart website titled "The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anxiety: Breaking Free from Worry, Panic, PTSD, & Other Anxiety Symptoms."

Honestly, I need this. Anxiety has ruled my life off and on for two years now. It's time for a change. Realistically speaking, it is impossible to live a life without anxiety, but it is possible to live a life without anxiety interfering with your daily life.

I haven't read much from it, but I thought it would be nice to make a thread keeping updated on everything that I have learned from the book so far. Maybe my notes and techniques that I learn might help somebody out who reads this thread?

The only things I remember so far:

- This book claims that anxiety disorders are just everyday event worries gone haywire.
- DBT is used primarily for treating borderline personality disorder, but is also useful for anxiety disorders as well.

hope that the book works for you.

this thread's a great idea

[hoping76]

I do know that DBT may be better for those with borderline personality and certain types of OCD. Those patients tend to be resistant to the thought processing needed in cbt.

[where_to_begin]

I've read the book, underlined parts, and read it over from time to time.

[hopeforthebetter]

It's a great idea and it's so nice of you to share the information.

[convalescence]

Hello, everyone! What a crazy ride life has been recently. I was planning on getting around to reading this book more in December, but other things were happening so quickly. I needed to put it aside for awhile. I'm back now though and [just now] finished the first chapter!

Here's what the rest of the chapter stated:

- People with anxiety disorders tend to develop a habit of avoiding a trigger that would cause anxiety. This sounds good in theory, because why would somebody WANT to face something that brings up negative emotions? Unfortunately, this is where a lot of anxiety sufferers get trapped, because the longer they sit alone the more time they have to think about WHY they should be avoiding it thus causing even more anxiety about the situation.

- People with anxiety disorders tend to suffer from attentional bias. Basically this means that somebody suffering from anxiety will focus on things that trigger the anxiety, even when they're no big deal. For me, it's definitely my stomach. I am SCARED of getting sick in public, so before I go out and feel a stomach ache it sends me into a spiral of panic which actually makes my anxiety worse; then I usually stay home or avoid the situation. This could be used as an example of the trap I made in my first point.

- Anxiety disorders tend to have friends! Substance abuse disorders, depression, and borderline personality disorder tend to be the most common ones.

NOTES:

It's important to identify when you are experiencing anxiety, because then you can track down what will cause an anxious reaction and WHEN you experience an anxious reaction. I am definitely more nervous in the morning or before an event. Blah!


I am hoping to keep more on track now with updating this thread! Hope everybody has been having a wonderful new year!