Name: Overcoming anxiety
ISBN: 9781849010719

jwdunneAug 2020

This actually looks like the ground work for cognitive behavioural therapy.

The idea (grossly simplified) is to take those observations of negative thoughts and build a rational response to those thoughts (cognitive part). Then you build a habit of noticing those thoughts and responding with the rational response. It’s far easier said than done, and perhaps best dispensed by a therapist. But these mental tools have been crucial to improving my own mental health.

Some great books on that go into more depth than I ever could include Feeling Good by Burns or Byrne, Overcoming Anxiety and Overcoming Depression.

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mattmanserMay 2015

50-65% improve with SSRIs compared to 30% with placebos

http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/healthadvice/treatmentswellbeing/an...

There was a discussion on here recently which had some evidence of the "therapy is even better than SSRIs", but therapy is a lot more expensive as a treatment I think. Like in the UK it's £45 per session.

Here in the UK I know you can get 6 weeks therapy on the NHS, but as the article laments, it just stops even if you're not cured which seems bizarre and there's a waiting list which doesn't help in the case of severe anxiety when you need help now.

On the other hand, you can get fairly inexpensive self-help books which you can use to teach yourself a lot of the CBT techniques:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Overcoming-Anxiety-Self-Help-Behavio...

Which isn't even mentioned in the article.

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DanBCMar 2012

buy / borrow these books, and work through them

(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Over-Mood-Change-Changing/dp/08...)

(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Overcoming-Anxiety-Helen-Kennerley/d...)

Find a friend to help give you a poke now and again.

Here's an Australian website that is often recommended.

(http://moodgym.anu.edu.au/welcome)

A few weeks work will drastically reduce anxiety.