Product Description

A unique insight into the cause and cure of anxiety, phobias, OCD and depression.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12542 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

From the Back Cover
This book brings us a new understanding of Anxiety Disorders and Depression. It shows how we can cure the very cause of these problems (not just the symptoms) and can help with:-
Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia) -
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) -
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) -
Panic Disorder and PTSD -
Self-harm and BDD -
Eating Disorders -
Specific Phobias -
Depression -
Understanding and changing a life ruled by shyness or stress. -

It takes us on a journey from childhood to adult, through the experiences, thoughts and feelings that can lead to the development of these problems. How they evolve and grow, which disorders develop and why, how we strengthen them and how they become part of us.
And then, the answer ... how to turn them around, to evolve and grow through them, beyond them to become stronger and wiser for our experiences ... beyond them to become the unique, worthy individual that it is our birthright to be.

Excerpted from Evolving Self Confidence: How to Become Free from Anxiety Disorders and Depression by T. Dixon. Copyright © 2008. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
As a Child... -

OUR PARENTS ARE GOD to us. We worship the ground they walk on; they gave us life and keep us alive. A father shows his son, what it is to be a man, a mother, to her daughter, a woman, and yet this same parent, the one we worship, can come to make us feel as though we are inadequate, stupid, weak and worthless. Significant others can do the same to some extent - but our parents are different; their genes are a part of us, their behaviour toward us strikes at our very existence, our inner-self, our being and we cannot feel any way toward them without feeling the same about part of our self.
Throughout recent history, there have been changes in thinking about the influence of parents on their children. Parents have gone from being fully responsible or having no responsibility at all to a middle ground, where other things, such as peers, school, society, and media play a major part. And they do, but nothing influences us like our parents; their genes are our genes and from the day we are born we are shaped by their beliefs, attitudes and behaviours, we are moulded by their hopes and fears and many people, well into their middle age, are still trying to please their parents and gain their love. --

In her self-help book about depression, Alexandra Massey estimates that around 80% of people that she has spoken to about depression are entangled with their parents and stuck.
And research has shown an improvement in the phobic behaviour of adolescents when relationships with their parents improved.
However, the purpose of this section is not to blame, judge or denigrate our parents. Not to justify anger, resentment or hate, for in doing this - something that plays a large part in most people's problems - we only hurt and damage ourselves. The purpose of this section is to understand what happens and why.

Customer Reviews

A MUST READ for anyone suffering from anxiety, panic etc
This book is utterly brilliant. For a start, it begins by explaining WHY anxiety disorders, OCD, agoraphobia and depression happen - and it makes such complete sense. Instead of feeling confused and hopeless about such a frightening condition, I began to realise that under the circumstances - it's all perfectly understandable: normal, even.
The symptoms are all explained, and they started to make sense to me as well.
The author's extensive knowledge and understanding (I could be wrong but I would guess that he's an ex-sufferer), means that he knows what he's talking about and it all makes total sense.
From the moment I started to read, I felt a great weight lifting from me: and I've had an anxiety disorder for 11 years.
The author goes on to explain how to weaken the connection and the learned habit of anxiety.
I've bought lots of 'cures' over the years, I've read dozens of books and I've undergone many treatments, including drugs. None of it really helped, but this book really is already helping me - and I haven't even finished reading it yet.
I recommend this book unreservedly, and I'll come back with another review in a few weeks to let you know how I progress.

Excellent!
As a practitioner I have recommended this book to many of my clients- it is both well written, accessible, very well researched and informative- no jargon, easy to read, and helpful.I am so glad to have discovered this very helpful book. I recommend it to anyone who wants to overcome anxieties and increase their self confidence.

Life transformer: synic into a Optimist
Hello,

This book is very good as it deals with life experience rather than the merely the problem. It helps you to identify where your feelings have come from and that Anxiety is not negative and should be cured, but that it is a high level of anxiety and its intangibility that is the issue.

If you suffer from anxiety then buy it! Like all things it takes time. As they say it takes 28 days to break a bad habit (some cases even more). Patience is important.

Enjoy!