Anxiety, mediations on the anxious mind
Type
Label
Anxiety, mediations on the anxious mind
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Anxiety
Oclc number
1159726569
Sub title
mediations on the anxious mind
Summary
Far more than we tend to realise, we're all - in private - deeply anxious. There is so much that worries us across our days and nights: whether our hopes will come true, whether others will like us, whether the people we care about will be OK, whether we can escape humiliation and grief. Too often, we bottle up our anxieties or try to avoid looking at them directly. We are ashamed of how worried we are and end up feeling isolated and yet more worried. None of this is necessary. Anxiety is deeply normal and, like so much else that troubles our minds, it can be understood and brought under our control. We all deserve to wake up every day without a sense of foreboding. This is a guide to anxiety: why we feel it, how we experience it when it strikes and what we can do when we come under its influence. Across a series of essays that look at the subject from a number of angles, the tone is helpful, compassionate and, in the best sense, practical. We have suffered for too long under the rule of anxiety. Here - at last - is a pathway to a calmer, more compassionate and more light-hearted future
Table of contents
How could we be anything but...? -- Anxiety & evolution -- Anxiety & modern times -- Basic trust -- Varieties of anxiety. Trauma & anxiety -- Self-hatred & anxiety -- Triggering & anxiety -- Diversionary anxiety -- Reputation & anxiety -- Friendship & anxiety -- Communion & anxiety -- Parties & anxiety -- Panic attacks & anxiety -- Publicity & anxiety -- Plan Bs & anxiety -- Love & anxiety -- Sex & anxiety -- Simplicity & anxiety -- Overthinking & anxiety -- Stoicism & anxiety -- Arrival & anxiety -- Detachment & anxiety -- Happiness & anxiety -- An ideal life for the anxious