Worry - Hope and Help for a Common Condition

Informationen zum Autor Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., was an instructor at Harvard Medical School for twenty years and is now the director of the Hallowell Centers in Seattle, San Francisco, New York City, and the Boston area. He is the co-author of Driven to Distraction, Delivered from Distraction, and Answers to Distraction, as well as the author of CrazyBusy, The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness, and Worry, among other titles. He also hosts a weekly podcast called Distraction that offers practical solutions on how to focus and regain control in today’s digital world. Klappentext Here is the first book to explore every facet of the most common and debilitating emotional state: worry. While a healthy level of worry can help us perform efficiently at work, anticipate dangers, and learn from past errors, in its extreme forms worry can become "toxic"--poisoning our pleasures, sabotaging our achievements, and preventing us from resolving actual problems. In this lucid, reassuring book, Dr. Hallowell discusses all types of worry, explores their underlying causes, and considers the best strategies for coping. Case histories and anecdotes illuminate such issues as worry in relationships; the correlation between worry and conditions like , depression, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder; worry at work; and the worried child. In an effective section titled "Remedies That Work," Dr. Hallowell shows us how to evaluate, control, and manage worry, both with and without medication. Even "born" worriers can learn to use their worry wisely and channel it healthily. This book is the key. Filled with practical solutions and insightful guidance, Worry is an invaluable aid to living a happier, calmer, and more rewarding emotional life. Leseprobe How Much of a Worrier Are You? A Self-Assessment Quiz We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. --Lewis Thomas Everyone is a worrier some of the time. But are you an excessive worrier? How can you get a handle on how much worry is normal and how much is too much? How do you know when to get help? You need to look at how you worry. Are you a mild, moderate, or severe worrier? We don't have instruments to make these measurements, so we offer some guidelines here. While we do not have a meter to measure worry, nonetheless people can rate themselves in terms of the intensity of their worrying as compared to that of their peers. In order to quantify how much you worry and find out how severe a worrier you are, I suggest that you take the following quiz. In response to each of the questions, give yourself 0 points if your answer is "rarely or not at all," 1 point if your answer is "sometimes," 2 points if your answer is "often," and 3 points if your answer is "almost every day." The questions that are starred (*) at the end (numbers 46-50) represent major risk factors for becoming an excessive worrier. Each of these questions should be answered simply "yes" or "no." Give yourself 3 points for each "yes" and 0 points for each "no." Answer all the other questions on the 0, 1, 2, or 3 scale just described. ____1. Do you wish you worried less? ____2. Do worries pop into your mind and take over your thinking, like annoying little gnats? ____3. Do you find something to worry about even when you know everything is OK? ____4. How much did you worry as a child? ____5. Do others comment on how much you worry? ____6. Does your spouse (or person closest to you) tell you that you worry too much? ____7. Do you find that worry clouds your judgment? ____8. Do you tarnish good times with worry? ____9. Do you dwell upon ...

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• Autori: Edward M Hallowell, Edward M. Hallowell, Edward M. Md Hallowell
• Editore: Ballantine
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 14.09.1998
• EAN: 9780345424587
• ISBN: 978-0-345-42458-7
• Pagine: 368
• Dimensioni: 138 mm x 208 mm x 23 mm
• Categoria: Guide e manuali > Salute