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Stop Being Your Symptoms and Start Being Yourself: The 6-Week Mind-Body Program to Ease Your Chronic Symptoms

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This is a wonderful addition to the literature on anxiety and chronic illness. The wisdom here is invaluable, and it is expressed in such a way that I think people with these kinds of chronic symptoms can't help but recognize their own thought patterns here.

I loved all of the experiences of real people that are included, and the author's writing style is accessible as she talks about what we can learn from each experience of chronic symptoms or anxiety, and how to change.

I have two close friends who I will be recommending the book to, as I see so many of their experiences reflected here, and the author shows wonderful common sense and understanding towards the people suffering with these problems.

I read this book two and a half years ago, suffering from chronic Lyme or some other chronic illness. I had got to the point of thinking my life might be irrevocably changed. Friends made me work through the six week program in this book and it really changed my life. I don't say that lightly.

The book presents a six week program for reducing your obsession with your negative feelings, including tricks like "worry time," meditation, and my favorite: limit health research on the Internet to a specific, limited time per week.

Each week builds on the week before, and provides over a dozen activities and approaches to try. There is no need to try each, but only a handful. This feature means that you can complete the full program no matter your current state, and that if you do the program again you will get new insights and improvements out of it.

I have been actively recommending this book to several people over the years, and I really think their lives would be better for reading it.

This is an excellent self-help book for those suffering with hypochondria, health anxiety and health related depression. I've had health related anxiety sporadically throughout my life and as I read this book it felt like it was written for me.