When Panic Attacks

The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy That Can Change Your Life

De: David D. Burns MD

Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith

Do you toss and turn at night with a knot in your stomach, worrying about your job, your family, work, your health, or relationships? Do you suffer from crippling shyness, obsessive doubts, or feelings of insecurity? Are you plagued by fears, phobias, or panic attacks?

What you may not realize is that these fears are almost never based on reality. Anxiety is one of the world's oldest cons. When you're anxious, you're actually fooling yourself. You are telling yourself things that simply aren't true. See if you can recognize yourself in any of these distortions:

• All-or-Nothing Thinking: "My mind will go blank when I give my presentation at work, and everyone will think I'm an idiot."
• Fortune Telling: "I just know I'll freeze up and blow it when I take my test."
• Mind Reading: "Everyone at this party can see how nervous I am."
• Magnification: "Flying is so dangerous. I think this plane is going to crash!"
• Should Statements: "I shouldn't be so anxious and insecure. Other people don't feel this way."
• Emotional Reasoning: "I feel like I'm on the verge of cracking up!"
• Self-Blame: "What's wrong with me? I'm such a loser!"
• Mental Filter: "Why can't I get anything done? My life seems like one long procrastination."

Now imagine what it would be like to live a life that's free of worries and self-doubt; to go to sleep at night feeling peaceful and relaxed; to overcome your shyness and have fun with other people; to give dynamic presentations without worrying yourself sick ahead of time; to enjoy greater creativity, productivity and self-confidence.

Does that sound impossible? The truth is you can defeat your fears.

In When Panic Attacks, Dr. Burns takes you by the hand and shows you how to overcome every conceivable kind of anxiety. In fact you will learn how to use more than 40 simple, effective techniques, and the moment you put the lie to the distorted thoughts that plague you, your fears will immediately disappear. Dr. Burns also shares the latest research on the drugs commonly prescribed for anxiety and depression and explains why they may sometimes do more harm than good.

This is not pop psychology but proven, fast-acting techniques that have been shown to be more effective than medications. When Panic Attacks is an indispensable handbook for anyone who's worried sick and sick of worrying.

Includes a PDF of Supplemental Materials

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2017 David D. Burns (P)2017 Random House Audio

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"Few truly great books on psychotherapy have been published, and this is one of them. When Panic Attacks tells you how to deal with all kinds of anxiety and with most other emotional problems. It is clearly and charmingly written." (Albert Ellis, PhD, founder of the Albert Ellis Institute and best-selling author of A Guide to Rational Living)

"Another masterpiece from the author who helped millions help themselves with Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy. Dr. Burns's elegant writing style, compassion, and humor translate powerful psychotherapy methods into accessible, practical, and helpful tools for the vast number of individuals who struggle with anxiety." (Henny Westra, PhD, associate professor and director of the York University Anxiety Research Clinic)

Best investment that I’ve made so far

Get this book and feeling good too by the same author, it really gets you thinking differently and that’s good if you’re the kind of person who thinks in a negative pattern or stuck in one thought for months or years, I’m reading it because of social anxiety, and know I’m questioning my fears all together it’s incredible

Amazing!! Best book on anxiety I’ve ever read!!

This Book helps you figure out your triggers and how to deal with them in a way that I could understand.
My Audible library is filled with books on anxiety and panic attacks. By far this audiobook has more information and then all of them combined. I also bought the book so I can read it again and do the exercises.

Highly recommend

I read and listened to his multimillion-copy bestseller Feeling Good that everybody’s probably seen and it was good however this book is so much better! This is the book that I will recommend to my clients. Thank you for including the PDF! :-)

Very helpful!!

I didn’t think this book would help me as much as it did. If you have a tendency to be anxious or have panic attacks, this is the best book for you.

Awesome PDF of Tools and Audio Examples

If you could sum up When Panic Attacks in three words, what would they be?

Tools Helping Anxiety

What did you like best about this story?

The problem solving tools and understanding behind this book is well researched. Tackled anxiety from many angles including information. Useful tools, actions and ideas for in the moment.

The PDF makes it easy to review many of the ideas quickly.

Which scene was your favorite?

Cognitive distortions related to shyness and anxiety are super helpful. Very quickly with a bit of problem solving can work against the untrue and problematic thoughts

What’s an idea from the book that you will remember?

Anxiety is a result of anxious thoughts. Sometimes our behavior enforces that thoughts

You are buying relief

This book saves you from your present. This book prevents your past from harming you. This book creates the future you were born to live.

You can overcome anxiety and depression.

Within Audible, you will need to buy the referenced documents to my knowledge. The literature can save you, if you work at it.

loved it! never imagined it could change my life

The narrator made it so easy to follow and I felt identified with many of the real life examples

A bit too long but extremely valuable

At first I thought the book would be way too long as the author dove into much detail and presented one example case after another. Later I realized that all those examples glue all the lessons and points in your mind. This book is a must read for anyone who deals with anxiety or depression or has a family member who does. Still the book could have been a little shorter but the value it provides is tremendous.

life changer

I drive a lot, hence audible. Lots of references to PDF's but the insight information is a life changer for me.
So glad I listened to it.