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Books to Read About Worry and Worrying

by Karissa 11 Comments

 

We are now in the hectic and wild time of the year. A lot of people find the holiday season to be the hardest time of the year. Whether you are surrounded by loads of family or all alone during the holidays, this season can wreck havoc on anyone’s emotions. If you think reading a book about worrying less, calming anxiety, overcoming fear and controlling thinking patterns would be beneficial to you or someone you know… I’ve got a few suggestions on books about worrying!


1) Rewire Your Anxious Brain How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry By: Catherine M Pittman PhD, Elizabeth M Karle MLIS

About the Book: 

Do you ever wonder what is happening inside your brain when you feel anxious, panicked, and worried? This book is an evidence-based solution to overcoming anxiety based in cutting-edge neuroscience and research.
 
You will learn how the amygdala and cortex (both important parts of the brain) are essential players in the neuropsychology of anxiety. The amygdala acts as a primal response, and oftentimes, when this part of the brain processes fear, you may not even understand why you are afraid. By comparison, the cortex is the center of “worry.” That is, obsessing, ruminating, and dwelling on things that may or may not happen. In the book, Pittman and Karle make it simple by offering specific examples of how to manage fear by tapping into both of these pathways in the brain.

Read more at New Harbinger…

My Thoughts:

I have heard about this book from a number of sources. It is one of those books that always comes up when people suggest books for anxiety. I have heard of it helping people and being life changing. This book is true to all the rumors. It is a fantastic book! If you only pick up one book, get this one!


2) Little Ways to Keep Calm and Carry On Twenty Lessons for Managing Worry, Anxiety, and Fear By: Mark Reinecke PhD

About the Book:

First featured on a British poster produced during World War II, “Keep calm and carry on” has become the mantra of millions—but exactly how to keep calm remains a difficult question for most of us.

The next time you are stressed by pressures at work, overwhelmed by life’s challenges, or panicked by problems that seem unsolvable, reach for this book. In Little Ways to Keep Calm and Carry On, you’ll find twenty short yet powerful lessons and anxiety-reducing techniques that will help you move past stressful moments with grace. Each lesson is so simple to learn and practice, you’ll find that this pocket guide is all you really need whenever you need a little help keeping calm.

Read more at New Harbinger…

My Thoughts:

This book is a great mini resource. It isn’t intimidating and has an inviting charm. The book is organized with quick chapters that focus on lessons for coping when you might suffer from worry. I really liked the simple read, the simple breakdown and the simple, yet great advice. 


3) Women Who Worry Too Much How to Stop Worry and Anxiety from Ruining Relationships, Work, and Fun By: Michelle G. Craske PhD, Holly Hazlett-Stevens PhD

About the Book:

Women are more likely than men to develop anxiety disorders, a fact which researchers have attributed to a range of biological, psychological, and cultural factors.  The goal of this book is to help readers control excessive worry by learning to perceive threats more accurately and to stop focusing on things that are unlikely to happen.

This book addresses the fundamentals of worry: what it is, how it differs from anxiety, and how it can develop into a chronic state of mind. The book offers strategies for overcoming worry that include monitoring personal worry triggers, breaking worry-provoking habits, and avoiding avoidance-a major aggravating factor for all anxiety disorders. From it, you’ll learn to use mindfulness techniques to avoid ruminating on the past or the future and how to use progressive relaxation to cope with worrisome situations.

Read more at New Harbinger…

My Thoughts:

I believe in working on self improvement throughout your whole life. We all need some guidance in places in our life, some of us need a little more encouragement and help than others. I get a lot out of self-help books and that is why I like to read and then recommend them, this book being one of them! Although worry is not just a women’s problem, women do tend to worry more. This is a good book to add to your self help shelf! 


4) The User’s Guide to the Human Mind Why Our Brains Make Us Unhappy, Anxious, and Neurotic and What We Can Do about It By: Shawn T. Smith PsyD

About the Book:

Your mind is not built to make you happy; it’s built to help you survive. So far, it’s done a great job! But in the process, it may have developed some bad habits, like avoiding new experiences or scrounging around for problems where none exist. Is it any wonder that worry, bad moods, and self-critical thoughts so often get in the way of enjoying life?

Based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), The User’s Guide to the Human Mind is a road map to the puzzling inner workings of the human mind, replete with exercises for overriding the mind’s natural impulses toward worry, self-criticism, and fear, and helpful tips for acting in the service of your values and emotional well-being—even when your mind has other plans.

  • Find out how your mind tries to limit your behavior and your potential
  • Discover how pessimism functions as your mind’s error management system
  • Learn why you shouldn’t believe everything you think
  • Overrule your thoughts and feelings and take charge of your mind and your life

Read more at New Harbinger…

My Thoughts:

I was first interested in this book because the author was a private practice psychologist in Denver. I hadn’t heard a lot about this book before reading it, yet it quickly became a book I was speeding through. I love reading about facts and science, and this guide is a little more on that side than some of these other books I recommend. Just depends how you think and what touches you more. This might be the one for you!


5) Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts A CBT-Based Guide to Getting Over Frightening, Obsessive, or Disturbing Thoughts By: Sally M. Winston PsyD, Martin N. Seif PhD

About the Book:

You are not your thoughts!

If you suffer from unwanted, intrusive, frightening, or even disturbing thoughts, you might worry about what these thoughts mean about you. Thoughts can seem like messages—are they trying to tell you something?But the truth is that they are just thoughts, and don’t necessarily mean anything. Sane and good people have them. If you are someone who is plagued by thoughts you don’t want—thoughts that scare you, or thoughts you can’t tell anyone about—this book may change your life.

In this compassionate guide, you’ll discover the different kinds of disturbing thoughts, myths that surround your thoughts, and how your brain has a tendency to get “stuck” in a cycle of unwanted rumination. You’ll also learn why common techniques to get rid of these thoughts can backfire. And finally, you’ll learn powerful cognitive behavioral skills to help you cope with and move beyond your thoughts, so you can focus on living the life you want. Your thoughts will still occur, but you will be better able to cope with them—without dread, guilt, or shame.

If you have unwanted thoughts, you should remember that you aren’t alone. In fact, there are millions of people just like you—good people who have awful thoughts, gentle people with violent thoughts, and sane people with “crazy” thoughts. This book will show you how to move past your thoughts so you can reclaim your life!

Read more at New Harbinger…

My Thoughts:

Sometimes worrying is more serious – like if your thoughts are obsessive and non stop. This book helps guide you to overcome difficult and disturbing thoughts. It teaches about cognitive behavioral therapy and how to use it. It is a good book for when your thoughts are taking over your life. I think the CBT approach is a very successful and easy approach if you work at it.


6) Don’t Feed the Monkey Mind How to Stop the Cycle of Anxiety, Fear, and Worry By: Jennifer Shannon LMFT, Doug Shannon , Michael A. Tompkins PhD, ABPP

About the Book:

The very things we do to control anxiety can make anxiety worse. This unique guide offers a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-based approach to help you recognize the constant chatter of your anxious “monkey mind,” stop feeding anxious thoughts, and find the personal peace you crave.

Ancient sages compared the human mind to a monkey: constantly chattering, hopping from branch to branch—endlessly moving from fear to safety. Unfortunately, you can’t switch off the “monkey mind,” but you can stop feeding the monkey—or stop rewarding it by avoiding the things you fear.

By following the exercises in this book, you’ll learn to identify your own anxious thoughts, question those thoughts, and uncover the core fears at play. Once you stop feeding the monkey, there are no limits to how expansive your life can feel.

Read more at New Harbinger…

My Thoughts:

This book might have a silly name, but the book is a very popular one in the self-help realm. I absolutely loved the graphs, charts and illustrations. That is not something you always get from these type of books. Overall, the book is a little more lighthearted, but gets down to the matter of helping to control your mind’s thoughts. Great book for anxiety, fear and worry!


Are you a worrier? Which book on worrying is most appealing to you? Do you know someone that would benefit from a book on overcoming worry?

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