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Overcoming Specific Phobia - Client Manual (Best Practices for Therapy)

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This is not a large book on how to ovecome your anxiety issues, but it gets right to the point. I read it in one day and used the principles it suggested and I actually overcame a specific phobia in one afternoon. I had, for no known reason, developed an anxiety reaction to driving on one particular highway in my city. It was a busy, 5 lane route with a speed limit of 70 mph. with an average speed of 80 mph for most drivers. Every time I used that highway, I experienced an anxiety reaction that could be classified as a panic attack. It was intolerable. I suffered for weeks until I got this book and read it the first day. I used the coping methods suggested and it worked for me. I now drive that route at least once a week and on the rare occasion that I get anxious, I tell myself that "I feel nothing, this is uncomfortable, but many things in my life are uncomfortable and I can handle this" and I get where I have to go without incident. Read this book and use it, it can be very helpful, if not a cure! Who knew something as simple as wearing a rubber band on my left wrist and tweaking it whenever anxiety became an issue could actually revise a panic situation. It works!