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How to Control Your Anxiety

By: Albert Ellis Ph.D., Kristene A. Doyle - foreword
Narrated by: Tom Parks
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"No individual - not even Freud himself - has had a greater impact on modern psychotherapy." - Psychology Today

CLASSIC SELF-HELP FROM A RESPECTED PIONEER OF PSYCHOTHERAPY

From social anxiety to phobias to post-traumatic stress disorder, sources of anxiety in daily life are numerous, and can have a powerful impact on your future. By following the rules of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), created by world renowned therapist Dr. Albert Ellis, you can stop anxiety in its tracks if you will admit this important fact: Things and people do not make you anxious. You do. Your unrealistic expectations produce your needless anxiety. Yet not all anxiety is needless....

Healthy anxiety can ward off dangers and make you aware of negative things that you can change. Unhealthy anxiety inhibits you from enjoying everyday activities and relationships, causes you to perform poorly, and blocks your creativity. Using the easy-to-master, proven precepts of REBT, this classic book not only helps you distinguish between healthy and unhealthy anxiety, but teaches you how to:

  • Understand and dispute the irrational beliefs that make you anxious
  • Use a variety of exercises, including rational coping self-statements, reframing, problem-solving methods, and Unconditional Self-Acceptance (USA), to control your anxiety
  • Apply over 200 maxims to control your anxious thinking as well as your bodily reactions to anxiety
  • ...and much more, including examples from dozens of cases Dr. Ellis treated successfully.

Now you can overcome the crippling effects of anxiety - and increase your prospects for success, pleasure, and happiness at home and in the workplace.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©1998 Albert Ellis Institute (P)2016 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Foreword © 2016 Albert Ellis Institute.

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Every high school kid should listen to this

I wish I would have heard this a long time ago. I strongly recommend reading this.

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this book helped me a lot! lots of great tips

this book helped me a lot! lots of great tips. must download for all those going through anxiety issues.

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great for anxiety relief

very good book it identifies negative thinking and how to change it. REBT is a game changer for people with anxiety.

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Great book on anxiety and how to achieve your goal

read it/ listen to it several times. there is so many nuggets in it you will want to hear it multiple times to get the most out of it

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Repetitive and nothing new.

Maybe it's a reference book, because it is as entertaining and educational in audio as listening to a book of mathematical formulas. And the repetitive examples seem sarcastic.

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Exceptional

I'll need to listen to this a 2nd time and take notes, but overall very informative book that will help me greatly

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This is a great book

This is a great book. It contains resources not in other books by Albert Ellis. I recommend this book.

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