Women & Anxiety: A Step-by-Step Program for Managing Anxiety and Depression [Paperback]

Helen DeRosis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 17, 1998

Anxiety and depression are facts of life, but you don't have to live with them! Single parenthood. Marriage problems. AIDS. Sexual freedom. Divorce. Career demands. The glass ceiling. Run with the Wolves or play by The Rules. Pro-life. Choice. Alternative lifestyles. No wonder women are anxious and depressed. Never before have women been confronted with so many bewildering choices and so many incessant demands. How do women cope? How can they defeat self-defeating attitudes and actions? How can they conquer their fears, win the battle with anxiety and triumph over depression? Women & Anxiety, first published in 1979, is now completely revised and updated for the 1990s. Women & Anxiety offers readers a new, dynamic, and easy-to-use strategy for dealing with the problems of stress, anxiety, and depression. In an inspiring and practical style, noted psychiatrist Dr. Helen DeRosis will show women of today how to manage anxiety in an easy step-by-step program. With sensible suggestions and solutions, this book will show you how to turn anxiety into a positive force in your life and how to learn to channel it in healthy and constructive ways.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Women and Anxiety: A Step-by-Step Program for Managing Anxiety and Depression is a "self-help guide for recovery of your well-being," designed to empower you to take control "in a new, hopeful way, rather than with old, hurtful patterns." This book aims to help you understand the basis of your troublesome feelings and become less enraged, guilt ridden, and pessimistic by using the author's 20-step program.

Everyone suffers from anxiety, says author DeRosis, a psychiatrist specializing in women's mental health. It becomes a problem when it is excessive and causes suffering and/or incapacitation. DeRosis teaches you to see anxiety as a signal of inner conflict that you can resolve, and to harness your restless energy productively.

She examines anxiety's underlying emotions, such as anger, perfectionist expectations, marital dissatisfaction, and role or age transitions. The 20-step program helps you expose the conflicts that create anxiety, and then change features of your life. You deal with only one "trouble point" at a time, so that you can clarify and resolve an issue, make a change, and create a sense of accomplishment. Case studies illustrate how several women worked through these steps, so you can follow their examples. --Joan Price

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A book every woman -- married, single, working, or home-oriented -- could use to help her live a fuller, free-of-fear life. -- Ladies Home Journal

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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Hatherleigh Press; Revised edition (June 17, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1886330999
• ISBN-13: 978-1886330993
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 8.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #675,585 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful, even for men, September 18, 2000

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I found this book very helpful in allowing me me to understand what sorts of beliefs and thought patterns can contribute to overwhelming feelings of anxiety.

I've had to live with anxiety as a big part of my life for the last six years now. In fact, I just passed the sixth anniversary of my first full-blown panic attack. For anyone who's had a panic disorder, you know how frightening it is and how alone it can make you feel. This book gives you some hope, because it helps you to understand at least partly why you're feeling the things you're feeling. You're not crazy, and you're not going to die (even if you're sure you are--I was pretty sure I was going to die almost everday for the last six years, but I'm still here).

This book is written for women, but most of the physchological insights apply just as well to men. I'm a 27 year old man and I found this book extremely helpful. I definitely recommend it to anyone who has experienced debilitating anxiety and panic firsthand. I also think it would be a good read for anyone who just wants to understand human behavior and negative thought tendacies better. In helping us to understand and clearly see the unrealistic expectations that we all carry around in our heads, De Rosis points the way to living an easier, simpler, happier life.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stand's On It's Own, August 13, 1998

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This review is from: Women & Anxiety: A Step-by-Step Program for Managing Anxiety and Depression (Paperback)

If you have anxiety or panic disorder, this book is definately worthwhile. Written specifically for women, it provides step by step guides on how to get better and back to your life. It stands on it's own. Highly recommended.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Psychology and hope, January 11, 2007

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E. Ray Clendenen "Malachi" (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Women & Anxiety: A Step-by-Step Program for Managing Anxiety and Depression (Paperback)

There are some excellent and helpful secular books on women and anxiety. This one covers much of the same ground but from a clearly Biblical perspective. Furthermore, the hope offered here makes this an outstanding resource for Christian women. The book can also help men suffering from the same affliction.