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 The National Institute of Anxiety and Stress, Inc. offers a breakthrough self-help program for conquering anxiety and stress. It can help you address your symptoms, change your anxious thought patterns, and create a relaxing, fulfilling life. 

ConquerAnxiety - Tools for Creating a Healthy, Anxiety-Free Life

 
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Although our thoughts influence mood, behavior and physical reactions, positive thinking is not a solution to life's problems.

Most people who are anxious, depressed or angry can tell you that "just thinking positive thoughts" is not that simple.

In fact, if we do try to think only positive thoughts when we have a strong mood, we may miss important signals that something is wrong.

 Cognitive therapy suggests instead that people consider as many different angles on a problem as possible. 

Looking at the situation from many different sides -- positive and negative and neutral -- can lead to new conclusions and solutions.

...from book : Mind Over Mood: Change How 
You Feel by Changing the Way You Think 
- by Dennis Greenberger, Christine Padesky 

 
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1. Expect, Allow and Accept That Fear Will Arise. If you have panic disorder, expect that you'll have to deal with it.

2. When Fear Comes, Stop, Wait, and Let it Be.  Our urge is to run from fear. Running only re-sensitizes you. Stay with it and allow the feeling to be there.

3. Focus on the Present. Use your senses to get grounded.  Touch; smell; notice the colors and sounds around you.

4. Label Your Level of Fear from zero-10.  A level of 0 is calm; 10 is pure panic. When you reach a 10, you can't do anything but "ride the wave." There's peace on the other side of panic.

5. Ask Yourself, "What Am I Really Afraid Of?"  Work your way through every "what if" scenario.

6. Ask Yourself, "What is Actually Happening?"  Compare reality to your fear.

7. Function With Fear -- Be Proud of Your Achievement.  Even if you're doing everyday things, it's an advancement. Feel good about each step you've taken.

8. Expect, Allow and Accept That Fear Will Reappear.  Understand that this is a condition you have. Take the fear out of the fear.

--from : Jerilyn Ross Triumph over Fear : 
A Book of Help and Hope for People With 
Anxiety, Panic Attacks, and Phobias
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Gavin Andrews et al. The Treatment of Anxiety Disorders : Clinician Guides and Patient Manuals

David H. Barlow. Anxiety and Its Disorders: The Nature and Treatment of Anxiety and Panic

David Bayles, Ted Orland. Art & Fear

Judith Bemis, Amr Barrada. Embracing the Fear: Learning to Manage Anxiety and Panic Attacks

[from The WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women; review by Patricia Pettijohn:] "Nothing to fear but fear itself? For anyone who has ever suffered from the palm sweating, heart pounding, trembling, panting, exhausting terror of anxiety or panic attacks, that is more than enough. This book, authored by two recovering agoraphobics, offers strategies for managing anxieties and phobias, emphasizing the need to first accept our anxiety and panic, encouraging us to take risks, and giving specific dialogues to counter fearful self-talk."

Jonathan Berent. Beyond Shyness : How to Conquer Social Anxieties

Harold H. Bloomfield, MD. Healing Anxiety Naturally

Tamar E. Chansky. Freeing Your Child from Anxiety

Anxiety is the number one mental health problem facing young people today. Childhood should be a happy and carefree time, yet more and more children today are exhibiting symptoms of anxiety, from bedwetting and clinginess to frequent stomach aches, nightmares, and even refusing to go to school. Parents everywhere want to know: All children have fears, but how much is normal? How can you know when a stress has crossed over into a full-blown anxiety disorder? Most parents don't know how to recognize when there is a real problem and how to deal with it when there is. In Freeing Your Child From Anxiety, a childhood anxiety disorder specialist examines all manifestations of childhood fears, including social anxiety, Tourette's Syndrome, hair-pulling, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and guides you through a proven program to help your child back to emotional safety. [from the book]

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books by Michelle G. Craske, PhD.:

 Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic

  Mastery of Your Anxiety and Worry: Client Workbook

  Mastery of Your Specific Phobia Therapist Guide   [Publisher's Note:] "... an empirically-supported,
cognitive-behavioral treatment program designed for patients diagnosed with a specific phobia, according
to DSM-IV criteria. The program describes treatment strategies for a variety of specific phobias, including
animal phobias, natural environment phobias, situational phobias... Detailed therapeutic interventions are
described to help clients manage fear and anxiety, including objective self-monitoring techniques, systematic
desensitization, and cognitive restructuring. Interoceptive and in-vivo exposure exercises are presented to help
clients overcome phobic avoidance.

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Peter Desberg, PhD. No More Butterflies : Overcoming Stagefright, Shyness, Interview Anxiety and Fear of Public Speakingy

Albert Ellis. How to control your anxiety before it controls you

Janet E. Esposito M.S.W. In The SpotLight: Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking and Performing

Suzanne Falter-Barns. How Much Joy Can You Stand : A Creative Guide to Facing Your Fears and Making Your Dreams Come True

Robert W. Firestone, Ph.D. et al. Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice

Bruce Goldberg. Self-Hypnosis: Easy Ways to Hypnotize Your Problems Away

Chris Green. Conquering Fear .. [link to author site]
Very few people truly understand why some people achieve a dream lifestyle, filled with success, adventure and happiness. Most believe it is down to luck, others in fate or kismet. For those looking to change, they find well-meaning gurus passing on the mantra of goal-setting, visualizations and affirmations. Sure, these help. They're crucial, the building blocks if you like, in creating a life of your design. ... But when it comes to walking the walk, it ain't so easy. FEAR raises its ugly head. And if you don't fully understand what's happening to you, then your dreams for a better life filled with happiness will remain where they started. Inside your head.

Don Greene Ph.D. Fight Your Fear and Win: Seven Skills for Performing Your Best Under Pressure - At Work, in Sports, on Stage

Don Greene Ph.D. Performance Success : Performing Your Best Under Pressure

Ada P. Kahn, Ronald M. Doctor. Facing Fears: The Sourcebook for Phobias, Fears, and Anxieties

Soren Kierkegaard. The Concept of Anxiety

Susan Kolodny. The Captive Muse : On Creativity and Its Inhibition

[Publisher:] "Challenging the view that making art is typically linked to psychopathology, she demonstrates how our internal conflicts interfere with rather than foster creative work. She explains the resistances that crop up along he way and the inner voices by which artists and writers are encouraged or beset. She shows how who we are helps to determine what happens when we revise and how the stages of psychological development contribute to an eventual ability or inability to do creative work. She quotes from interviews with six productive artists and writers who speak candidly about their work, then points out instructive differences between the unimpeded and those who become blocked or stalled."  author site

Mark R. Leary. Social Anxiety

Joseph J. Luciani. Self-Coaching: How to Heal Anxiety and Depression

Eric Maisel, PhD. Fearless Creating : A Step-By-Step Guide to Starting and Completing Your Work of Art

Eric Maisel, PhD. Fearless Presenting : A Self-Help Workbook for Anyone Who Speaks, Sells, or Performs in Public

Eric Maisel, PhD. The Performance Anxiety Workbook: A Workbook for Actors, Musicians, Dancers and Anyone Else Who Performs in Public
A complete program for handling performance anxiety, with performance anxiety broadly defined to include the anxiety that wells up in a creator when she faces the blank canvas or the blank computer screen. Many techniques for managing performance anxiety are described, among them cognitive techniques, relaxation techniques, disidentification techniques, and guided visualizations.
Maisel is a creativity coach, trained as a family therapist, has been working with creative and performing artists for more than twenty years and writing for thirty-five years.

John R. Marshall. Social Phobia : From Shyness to Stage Fright

Rollo May. The Courage to Create

Phillip Moffitt is a co-author of The Power To Heal : Ancient Arts & Modern Medicine

Dennis Palumbo. Writing from the Inside Out

"The traditional stereotypcial view is, 'Oh, my neuroses cause my writing, so if I cure my neuroses, I won't write anymore.' But my experience is: There is no cure. It's a mistake to think that there is some perfectable you in the future freed of conflict and problems. And if that happens, you won't write anymore. The conflicts and sensitivities that drive a person to write are with us forever. They're what make us who we are, and they're what make us writers."

Stan Popovich. A Layman's Guide to Managing Fear - Using Psychology, Christianity and Non-Resistant Methods [ebook or paper]

"The author through his research, including discussions with professionals in the psychology and religious fields, presents a general overview of several techniques that are effective in managing persistent fear. This book describes three powerful but different approaches to managing fear: general counseling, psychological techniques and non-resistent methods--asking for God's Hel... This book is not a substitute for the guidance of a professional, but simply a way to present ways you might never have thought about in managing your fear..."

Ronald M. Rapee. Overcoming Shyness and Social Phobia : A Step-By-Step Guidey

Richard Restak, M.D. Poe's Heart and the Mountain Climber : Exploring the Effect of Anxiety on Our Brains and Our Culture

Mitchell W. Robin, Rochelle Balter. Performance Anxiety

David Roland. The Confident Performer

Jerilyn Ross. Triumph over Fear : A Book of Help and Hope for People With Anxiety, Panic Attacks, and Phobias

Billie J. Sahley, PhD, Katherine M. Birkner. Heal With Amino Acids and Nutrients: Survive Stress, Pain, Anxiety, Depression Without Drugs, What to Use and When
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Paul G. Salmon, Robert G. Meyer. Notes from the Green Room : Coping With Stress and Anxiety in Musical Performance

Jeffrey M. Schwartz, MD. Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior
[reader:] The most memorable, constantly reinforced phrase I recall from the book is that whenever you find yourself obsessing about an undesired thought, simply say to yourself "its not me its my OCD". Once that realization hits home, you shift ALL your focus to something else such as work, a good book, playing with your child, or any activity that removes you from the obsessive "stuck in gear" pattern. It sounds simple but it DOES work. 

Ann Herbert Scott. Brave As a Mountain Lion
[Publishers Weekly] Set on a contemporary Shoshone reservation, this book is a refreshingly atypical addition to the Native American genre. Spider, a boy terrified of participating in his school's spelling bee, is strengthened by the loving and distinctly Native American advice given by each member of his family...

Gloria Shafer. Performance Power

Carol A. Turkington, David H. Barlow. Stress Management for Busy People

Adrian Wells. Emotional Disorders and Metacognition: Innovative Cognitive Therapy

[Book News review:] "Helps to develop an understanding of the internal rules and processes that guide thinking, and the factors that lead individuals to become trapped in cycles of negative and distorted thought. Addresses limitations of cognitive theories and describes how metacognition, self-attentional processes, and worry/rumination strategies are central to emotional vulnerability, the maintenance of trauma-related stress reactions, and to emotional disorders." 
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