| Living Well with Anxiety: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You... That You Need to Know Contributor(s): Clark, Carolyn Chambers (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060823771 ISBN-13: 9780060823771 Publisher: William Morrow & Company OUR PRICE: $18.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2006 Annotation: A Comprehensive, Holistic Guide to the Conventional Medical and Self-Care Treatments for Anxiety Disorders In a world that values excess, the pressure to succeed never ends. As a result of our fast-paced and high-stakes society, anxiety can take over our lives. For approximately 20 million American adults a year, anxiety symptoms such as dizziness, stammering, heart palpitations, trembling, and shaking can be extremely debilitating. Unlike other books on anxiety, this book offers a holistic program that includes not only conventional psychiatric and psychological treatments, but also provides nutrition, fitness, environmental, herbal, stress reduction/healing, and relationship self-care approaches. "Living Well with Anxiety" contains helpful advice for a wide range of anxiety disorders: social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and various phobias. With a comprehensive resource section that contains relevant websites and e-mail addresses, audiocassettes and CDs for relaxation, and descriptions of related books, this book provides vital help for anyone experiencing anxiety. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Self-help | Self-management - Stress Management - Health & Fitness | Healthy Living - Medical | Mental Health |
| Dewey: 616.852 |
| LCCN: 2005050399 |
| Series: Living Well (Collins) |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 5.32" W x 8.06" (0.58 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A complete guide to the side-effects and treatments for anxiety disorders High anxiety is an unfortunate byproduct of this world, and for approximately 20 million American adults a year, anxiety becomes a debilitating part of their lives. The psychological can become physical, causing dizziness, stammering, heart palpitations, trembling, shaking, and other symptoms. Unlike other books on anxiety disorders, Living Well with Anxiety offers a holistic approach to minimizing anxiety, presenting both conventional psychiatric and psychological approaches to anxiety conditions, as well as patient anecdotes, and nutrition, herbal, environmental, exercise and other healing measures to combat this disorder. Living Well with Anxiety contains helpful advice for a wide range of anxiety disorders, including social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and various phobias that cause anxiety. With a comprehensive resource section that contains websites, doctors, and helpful articles, this book, like all of the titles in the successful Living Well series, offers positive and far-reaching solutions to building a healthier life, both emotionally and physically. |
Contributor Bio(s): Clark, Carolyn Chambers: - Carolyn Chambers Clark is a board-certified advanced holistic nurse practitioner with a master's degree in mental health nursing and a doctorate in education. She is a faculty member in the Health Services Doctoral Program at Walden University, and she hosts http: //home.earthlink.net/ cccwellness and |