The worry trick : how your brain tricks you into expecting the worst and what you can do about it / David A. Carbonell.

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Are you truly in danger or has your brain simply ""tricked"" you into thinking you are? In The Worry Trick, psychologist and anxiety expert David Carbonell shows how anxiety hijacks the brain, and offers effective techniques based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help readers break the cycle of worry-once and for all. Anxiety can often play subtle tricks to convince us of something that is not true. This book helps readers understand this so they can observe anxious feelings with distance and clarity.

Introduction -- The worry trick -- It's all in my head -- and I wish it would leave! -- Your dual relationship with worry -- Feeling afraid in the absence of danger: how odd is that? -- Putting out fires with gasoline, and the rule of opposites -- The mad libs of anxiety: catch the worries before they catch you -- Thinking about thoughts -- Uncle Argument and your relationship with worry -- AHA! Three steps for handling chronic worry -- Your daily worry workout -- The worry parasite -- Breaking the secrecy trap -- Specialized worries: sleep and illness -- Closing thoughts: There's something funny about worry ...

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