Undoing Perpetual Stress: The Missing Connection Between Depression, Anxiety and 21stCentury IllnessThe author of Undoing Depression presents an effective guide to modern anxiety, and shows how you can recognize—and rescue yourself from—its effects. Twenty-first-century life evolves at a breakneck pace—and with it, stress seems to multiply by the day. We work long, harrowing hours. We fret over our families and finances. Our e-mail beeps and our cell phones ring. But our nervous systems were never meant to handle so many stressors. In this groundbreaking book, psychotherapist Richard O’Connor explains how a wide range of common problems—both emotional and physical—are actually side effects of modern life, and how you can undo their damage. Combining expertise with down-to-earth language, Undoing Perpetual Stress explains how you can: • Recognize the hidden effects of stress on your brain and body • Understand your inner sanity in conflict with a crazy world • Develop self-control over how you think, act and feel when stressed • Regain a sense of meaning and purpose in your life You already know how to “do” stress. With the help of this book, you can undo it, too. |
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... experience, with all its distortions, blind spots, and excuses. • Learn to experience our emotions more fully at the same time as we control their expression more deliberately. • Build self-control and will power by developing greater ...
... experience, with all its distortions, blind spots, and excuses. • Learn to experience our emotions more fully at the same time as we control their expression more deliberately. • Build self-control and will power by developing greater ...
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... experience , with all its distortions , blind spots , and excuses . Learn to experience our emotions more fully at the same time as we con- trol their expression more deliberately . • Build self - control and will power by developing ...
... experience , with all its distortions , blind spots , and excuses . Learn to experience our emotions more fully at the same time as we con- trol their expression more deliberately . • Build self - control and will power by developing ...
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... experienced therapist . I'm not a media creation or a self - appointed guru ; I've been working with people for twenty ... experience of what works with people , what gets them moving - and tried to put it into ad- vice you can use ...
... experienced therapist . I'm not a media creation or a self - appointed guru ; I've been working with people for twenty ... experience of what works with people , what gets them moving - and tried to put it into ad- vice you can use ...
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... experience , and we'll talk about the effects of stress on our emotional lives . Emotions like anxiety and anger , hopelessness and guilt , are our early- warning system about the impact of stress , but we're woefully inept about what ...
... experience , and we'll talk about the effects of stress on our emotional lives . Emotions like anxiety and anger , hopelessness and guilt , are our early- warning system about the impact of stress , but we're woefully inept about what ...
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... experience and common sense , which automatically puts us in a state of anxiety . I am referring to the disparity between how we imagine our lives should be and how we actually experience them . Much of this disparity comes from ...
... experience and common sense , which automatically puts us in a state of anxiety . I am referring to the disparity between how we imagine our lives should be and how we actually experience them . Much of this disparity comes from ...
Contents
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Brain and Body | 66 |
Repairing the Emotional Brain | 109 |
Mindfulness the Core Skill | 148 |
The World We Create | 178 |
Common Human Miseries Anxiety Depression PTSD Personality Disorder Addiction | 231 |
Good Thoughts Bad Thoughts No Thoughts | 286 |
Getting Along with Your Body | 323 |
Relationships under Stress | 364 |
Adjusting the Brain | 412 |
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