Anxiety Under Control

The books, in order

1. 1

   Mental Health · 15 min

   10% Happier

   Dan Harris

   According to the book, noticing that there is a voice narrating your life from the inside, without confusing yourself with it, already opens a short gap before any automatic response takes over again.

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2. 2

   Mental Health · 17 min

   Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

   David D. Burns

   A good part of everyday suffering comes less from what happens and more from the automatic sentence your mind fires off right afterward.

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3. 3

   Mental Health · 15 min

   Anxiety: How to Deal with the Disease of the Century

   Augusto Cury

   Anxiety that shows up for no apparent reason often has lots of small reasons, piled up with no pause to process any of them.

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4. 4

   Mental Health · 17 min

   Stop Letting Everything Affect You: How to Break Free from Overthinking, Emotional Chaos, and Self-Sabotage

   Daniel Chidiac

   The mind tends to fill an unanswered question with disastrous assumptions, mistaking someone else's silence for immediate rejection.

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5. 5

   Mental Health · 15 min

   Anxious Minds

   Ana Beatriz Barbosa Silva

   Avoiding everything that scares you brings relief in the moment and fattens the fear over time.

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6. 6

   Mental Health · 15 min

   Mindfulness

   Mark Williams and Danny Penman

   Solving problems is useful; treating a feeling as if it were a technical defect usually makes things worse.

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7. 7

   Mental Health · 15 min

   Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life

   Steven C. Hayes and Spencer Smith

   According to the authors, trying to eliminate an uncomfortable feeling through sheer control usually feeds the very cycle you wanted to break.

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8. 8

   Mental Health · 16 min

   Mind Over Mood

   Dennis Greenberger and Christine A. Padesky

   Rating your mood turns a vague feeling into data, and data lets you notice small improvements that the memory of your worst moment erases.

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9. 9

   Mental Health · 15 min

   Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind

   Judson Brewer

   Feeling anxious about being anxious creates a second layer of suffering that wasn't there in the first place.

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10. 10

    Mental Health · 16 min

    Keep Your Brain Alive

    Lawrence C. Katz and Manning Rubin

    Doing something different while your mind is elsewhere doesn't accomplish much, because the book makes attention part of the exercise.

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