Product Description

This new edition of "More Self Help for Your Nerves" also includes "Peace from Nervous Suffering" - together they forge an understanding of nervous illness and develop a recovery programme to instill confidence and happiness. In this companion to "Self Help for Your Nerves", Dr Weekes explores the common and almost inevitable patterns that can occur with nervous illness. She also looks at the commonest kind of nervous illness - the anxiety state, or nervous breakdown. This book also looks at the problems of agoraphobia. Sufferers of nervous illness often become trapped in a cycle of suffering, Dr Claire Weekes shows how they can break this cycle and take their place among people without fear.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21318 in Books
• Published on: 2000-02-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 408 pages

From the Back Cover
Learn to take your place among people without fear. Dr. Claire Weekes is acclaimed throughout the world for her work on nervous illness. Together for the fist time in one volume, More Help for your Nerves and Peace from Nervous Suffering help to forge an understanding of nervous illness and create a recovery programme to instil confidence and happiness. As a companion to the international bestseller, Self Help for your Nerves, this book offers hope and understanding as Dr. Claire Weekes explores the common and inevitable patterns of nervous illness, as well as offering great insight into the most common kind of nervous suffering - the anxiety state, or nervous breakdown.

About the Author
The late Dr Claire Weeks was acclaimed internationally for her work on nervous illness. Her books have been published in eight different languages and are recommended extensively by doctors and medical clinics around the world.

Customer Reviews

I can't recommend this book enough
For six months I struggled with panic disorder. I didn't understand what my body was doing to me. I though that I was going completely mad. As well as counselling and taking anti-depressants I read as much as I could on the subject to try and understand what I was going through.

Eventually I came across this book by Dr Weekes. She explained clearly that every physical sensation I was experiencing was due to my oversensitized nerves. How my panic/anxiety attacks were not something that my body was just doing for no reason at all, but that by changing my reaction to them I could feel that I wasn't in the grips of something uncontrollable.

To understand why my head felt spacy, why my arms would tingle, why my heart would race were the most helpful pieces of advice I had been given. To really understand that I wasn't going to die, collapse or go mad helped with the fear - fear cycle and this was the first step to my recovery

This book helps you to 'own' your anxiety. Dr Weekes shares many helpful case studies and the book is full of practical advice to help you though those awful feelings. She really makes you feel that you are not on your own, destined to a life of anxiety or pill popping.

There is no overnight cure, but please try this book. You CAN take control and given time you WILL get through this.

An excellent book, well worth the money
I have only recently started to read this book, but, having suffered from anxiety for some years am already beginning to see results. Dr. Weekes explains the reasons behind the problems with such straight-forwardness and I can now see how I have been previously been making myself worse when I thought I was doing the right things! I really recommend getting this book ~ what's a few pound when it can change your life!

A MUST READ!
This book is still as good for today, as when it was first written! Dr Weekes KNOWS what you are going through - and seems to be the only person throughout my 40 years of suffering and failed therapies, who does. Most importantly, she clearly shows you the way forward. While some may or may not be relevant to you, there is so much of her description that brings you to tears of relief that your symptoms are 'normal' and you CAN recover. Whether you have mild fatigue... or serious breakdown, please read her works and your subsequent understanding, will be your most powerful weapon. Good luck!