Anxiety and Panic: How to Reshape Your Anxious Mind and Brain

The Flag Series, Book 1

By: Dr Harry Barry

Narrated by: Harry Barry

Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins

Publisher's summary

A practical guide to understanding, managing and overcoming anxiety and panic attacks by best-selling author and GP Harry Barry. Do you or does someone you love suffer from general anxiety, social anxiety, panic attacks, a phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder? Or are you a health-care worker treating people with these disorders? Then this audiobook is for you.

Dr Harry Barry combines a deep knowledge of the inner workings of the mind and brain with a wealth of experience treating patients as a GP to offer a way out of the fear, worry and shame of anxiety. In this wise, supportive book, Dr Barry explains clearly and simply what it is about our minds and brains that generates the symptoms of anxiety. Through a series of case studies based on his real-life experiences treating patients, he explains and demonstrates how to use lifestyle changes, mindfulness, exercise and CBT techniques to cope with these symptoms and ultimately feel better.

Previously published as Flagging Anxiety: How to Reshape Your Anxious Mind and Brain, this edition has been fully revised and updated.

©2018 Dr Harry Barry (P)2018 Orion Publishing Group

The book Anxious minds need

This book is a must! If you are under the impression that you “suffer” from panic attacks or GAD, this will help change your mindset. You are not alone, and will get through this along with help from Dr. Barry.

Excellent!

Well read by the author. I will listen to it again. It is extremely helpful and practical.

muy bueno

me funcionó para mis ataques de pánico.
lo recomiendo es un buen libro .

Life-changing and delightful to listen to

I’ll spare the intimate details of my experience with GAD and Panic Disorder, but know that this audiobook fundamentally changed the way I view my anxiety and my relationship and reactions to it. Years of therapy helped in many ways, but never went through the whole process of teaching me to understand my anxiety on a biological level, address all of the physical symptoms I might experience, address the best way to handle my panic attacks, and recognize how I can shape the way my anxious brain operates in the future. Dr. Harry Barry does exactly this, and he does it exceptionally well and all within one book. A must-read if you struggle with panic, GAD, and/or social anxiety.

Cons: the examples can get repetitive, however I was able to identify myself across many of the different examples, so I didn’t mind. Also, “Dr Jim”, the doctor in the book, handles his patient’s experiences in a reassuring way, yet it can come across as dismissive, especially when one has experienced a level of trauma from their disorders. Lastly, my first experience with panic and the resulting fear of it wasn’t addressed in the book, so it took longer for me to accept that my panic isn’t dangerous. However, in conjunction with therapy I was able to overcome this issue. Just know that your own specific experiences may not be outlined in the book.

very helpful.

wonderful material. helped me with my anxiety and panic attacks. I strongly recommend if you have any kind of anxiety.

very repetitive but perhaps by design

understanding some of the inner workings of the brain and hearing from the collection of stories from others with similar issues seems to be helping.