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Anxiety: Panicking about Panic: A powerful, self-help guide for those suffering from an Anxiety or Panic Disorder (Anxiety Books, Panic Attacks) by [Joshua Fletcher]

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Anxiety Panicking about Panic is a revolutionary, self-help book for people who suffer from the various symptoms of anxiety. The book acts as an informative guide and draws from the experiences of author and counsellor, Joshua Fletcher, who lived with anxiety disorder for years before successfully overcoming the condition. The book is tailored for people who are: experiencing panic attacks, feeling abnormally anxious, ruminating about health, anticipating further panic attacks and questioning why anxiety is present in the first place. Anxiety Panicking about Panic provides quick, easy to access advice and practical strategies, which aim to educate the reader to simplify their world of anxiety in order to successfully tackle it.

This book is particularly tailored for people who can associate with the conditions of:

- Anxiety
- Anxiety Disorder
- Generalized Anxiety
- Panic Disorder
- Agoraphobia
- Health Anxiety
- Panicking for no reason
- Panic Attacks (and anxiety about them happening again)

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Anxiety: Panicking About Panic has a reassuring and optimistic tone. It explains panic attacks in objective terms to help demystify the terrifying experience of actually going through them. The explanations are accompanied by ways to offset the panic. Overall it's an easy and accessible read with plenty of information that readers can put into practice immediately. The book has been written from the perspective of someone who has been through [anxiety] and come out on the other side with a story to tell. - Barb Nefer, WebPsychology

The strength of this book is that it is highly accessible for the average person who wishes to access information that's free from overwhelming academia. I can imagine that this book is highly valuable to the anxiety survivor, as well as an opening for people who wish to build upon their empathy for others who deal with anxiety. I have recommended this book as one of the first reads for the people who enter my practice and wish to start to understand their anxiety. - Kelvin Church, PhD, The Anxiety Cove Pratice, Manchester, UK

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After successfully overcoming what is medically defined as a 'panic disorder', I resumed a life where my new ambition was to find joy and contentment post-condition. The inspiration for writing Anxiety: Panicking about Panic came from a genuine want to help others with anxiety and the symptoms that accompany it, such as panic attacks. If you ask anyone who has suffered from a panic attack, I assure you they'll say it's one of the worst feelings you can experience.

I had suffered with anxiety and panic for years and over time I had built up enough knowledge to understand the condition and, quite critically, understand myself. The key for me was gaining a true understanding of anxiety and learning how to challenge, distinguish, believe and disregard a multitude of different thoughts. I had enough information and practical strategies to beat the condition. Subsequently, I wanted to write what I heard learned down on paper so that others could benefit from it too. I spent many a time trawling the internet researching, reading recounts and also scaring myself in the process. I applied a 'trial and error' approach and challenged my anxiety in many situations. Ultimately, this was the start of how this book was created.

I hadn't written a book before and did not know where to start. Therefore, I came to the conclusion that there was no better way to write it than to address it to my past self. This way, it would be written in a format that showed empathy and understanding - something scare in academic texts and science journals. Quite importantly, the book is written for those who suffer from constant anxiety and panic disorder - I wanted it to be accessible even in states of high anxiety and panic.From a neutral's perspective, I think the book highlights the severe lack of education on the topic as a whole. Many of my clients and readers of my book have often complained that doctors have been too hasty to prescribe medication such as anti-depressants. On the surface the book really isn't that complex, yet its success highlights how far away the medical profession is to providing an adequate response to people who seek help for panic disorder.I would recommend this book to anyone who suffers from the symptoms of anxiety. These symptoms usually come in the form of: panic attacks, social anxiety, feelings of derealisation, agoraphobia, breathlessness, palpitations etc.

I would also recommend that the relatives of those with the condition should read the book, as well as health professionals, in order to broaden and strengthen their understanding of anxiety and panic disorder. The book has been written from the perspective of someone who has been through it and come out on the other side with a story to tell. Perhaps if people did this then the apathetic stigma, social taboo and the overall disregard for the condition can be abolished.

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Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 2, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Joshua Fletcher MSc MBACP is a UK based author and psychotherapist who works at his private practice called The Panic Room ®. At his practice, Joshua specialises in dealing with conditions revolving around anxiety and panic disorders. This includes working with people who suffer from:

- Anxiety and Anxiety Disorder

- Panic Attacks

- Panic Disorder

- Social Anxiety

- Agoraphobia

- Hypochondria

Anxiety: Panicking about Panic is a UK best-seller and the follow up book, Anxiety: Practical about Panic, has just recently been booked in for a re-release through the publishing company, John Murray Publishing. Joshua feels his books have been successful because they are written for people who suffer from anxiety and written BY somebody who has also lived with the condition.

Fletcher used to be a primary school teacher by trade, but left the profession in order to pursue a personal dream of setting up my own private counselling practice - his books being the core foundation of the practice and counselling philosophy.

If you enjoyed the books then feel free to email Joshua at talk@thepanicroom.co.uk

Alternatively, you can find helpful information, book extracts and a link to the Amazon book page at www.thepanicroom.co.uk

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Abby Scogins

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 16, 2023

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Easy to digest. This book has been pivotal in flipping the script in my head on anxiety and panic attacks.
I was on the verge of agoraphobia. This book helped me understand what happens in my body and why. Also gave me the tools and understanding to break the cycle and begin taking my life back.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 26, 2023

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Just finished reading this book and I really enjoyed it. It was helpful. I recommend his books

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 14, 2015

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“Anxiety: Panicking About Panic” is a book for those of us who suffer from anxiety and even panic attacks. It’s split into three parts – Part 1 outlines the typical symptoms of anxiety and helps the reader acknowledge their problems; Part 2 explains the causes and effects of the symptoms, and Part 3 is the part that gives advice on how to cope with and defeat anxiety. The book concludes with the author’s personal journey of battling anxiety.

The first thing I’d like to say is that I truly wish I had known about this book during and after law school – it would certainly have saved me a lot of time spent in the counsellor’s office! Panic attacks and anxiety are terrible things that are quite common and are, unfortunately, rarely talked about and acknowledged. As the author correctly points out, if not dealt with, anxiety can easily lead to depression which is a very horrible illness and shouldn’t happen to anyone. The advice the book gives is most certainly helpful and applicable to many people who don’t understand what is happening to their mind and body. The book provides a comprehensive list of most common physical and psychological symptoms of anxiety, most of which I easily recognised from my years of struggling with G.A.D. The overwhelming symptoms are very difficult to bear, especially if you don’t know what and why they are occurring. Luckily, “Anxiety: Panicking about Panic” helpfully addresses the what and the why of anxiety symptoms and provides the do’s and the don’ts of dealing with the issues. It doesn’t oversimplify the problem, nor does it make it into something intimidating and scary that requires immense strength and immediate medical intervention. Instead, it provides a very helpful guide to acknowledging the problems and working through them, using the author’s own experiences. Panic attacks aren’t glossed over either – an explanation of what they are and why they are not to be feared is provided, together with some very helpful ways of dealing with them.

One of the most helpful things in this book is the author’s explanation of the “loop” – the catch-22 situation that occurs when an anxiety sufferer begins to feel anxious and panicky about being anxious and panicky and about everything that comes with it. While reading that part, I felt as though I was reading about myself – I was (and to an extent, still am) that person who immediately starts researching everything that could be wrong with me when something feels wrong, and it inevitably lead to being trapped in a vicious circle of anxiety. The author clearly and succinctly explains why it is a terrible idea to do so and ways to avoid it, using both text and graphs. The “loop” is a very easy and a dangerous trap to fall into, but it can be avoided if one has a book like “Anxiety: Panicking about Panic” close by.

I would definitely recommend this book – in this day and age, there are many causes for anxiety and few well-known ways of working through it. I believe, therefore, that it would be quite helpful to most people.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 21, 2022

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The Anxiety, Panicking about Panic book by Joshua Fletcher.
It’s so amazing and has been so helpful, I’m very grateful for it.
There was one part of the book I read today that has me feeling weary and I was curious to know thoughts. On page 62 under “Fear of having panic attacks” he says “ultimately, a panic attack is a temporary loss of control and it’s this loss of control that drives us to try and control every aspect of anxious thoughts..” etc.
As people who’ve had panic attacks, we have constantly learned that no matter how bad the panic is, we will never EVER lose control because we physically can’t. So my confusion is why he would classify a panic attack as “temporarily losing control?” But then repeat again and again that THAT could never happen?

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Holly Diez

Amazing!!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 20, 2022

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I read two of Josh’s books and they have helped tremendously with my new onset anxiety. They get passed around my friends and everyone raves about it. When I feel some unwanted anxiety, I go back and reference his books and use the techniques he wrote out in my everyday life. Couldn’t recommend a better book!

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Heidi Rasmussen

If you suffer from anxiety, buy this book!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 4, 2022

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As someone who suffers from anxiety and panic attacks, I found this book to be reassuring and helpful. I suspected that his solutions are what I need to do too to improve my life with anxiety-basically, keep living, be brave and stay busy. Anxiety passes. It's not forever, even if it feels that way. Many thanks to the author for sharing his story!

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Monica Lagana

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 14, 2021

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I've followed Joshua Fletcher on Instagram for a while and have always enjoyed his posts / vlogs. I am very passionate about mental health awareness, and so I decided to buy his book to see what it was like. Can't compliment this book enough. It gives you tons of information on different symptoms of anxiety along with various different kind of explanations (pictures, analogies, etc.). Has loads of insightful information and is presented in the perfect way. I often refer back to this book for different helpful coping mechanisms. The title of the book is accurate, it is truly a powerful self-help guide.

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ilseerasmus

Sound advice on anxiety, but lacking in depth and acknowledging other mental health matters

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 29, 2022

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This is practical and very helpful in understanding the basics about anxiety and panic.

There is however a gaping hole of silence on how anxiety may link to other underlying mental health issues.

The author says that he only trusts his GP and his CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) nurse, but that "the medical profession lacks the knowledge about the topic of anxiety as a whole" and he continues with a comment on medical professionals not knowing the difference between anxiety and depression. Mr Fletcher's generalized animosity towards medical professionals is highly suspect.

Unfortunately, not all mental illnesses are about anxiety and caused by adrenalin and cortisol. Some illnesses do need to be treated with medication under the supervision of a medical professional i.e. a psychiatrist.

I understand that this is a book about anxiety and panic written from Mr Fletcher's personal experience suffering from anxiety and as a counselor (psychologist), so I do not expect a long treatise about different mental illnesses.

Throwing everything under the anxiety umbrella and ignoring the existence of other mental illnesses is dangerously simplistic and irresponsible. He claims that it took him three years to deal with his anxiety, but that his reader can do it in an afternoon by reading his book. If dealing with anxiety and mental illness were so simple, why does he still work as a practicing counselor?

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Jose A

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 30, 2018

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This self-help book it’s written from a very personal perspective. It starts with a description of anxiety syntoms. But then it tries to deal with the problem by ignoring its causes and fighting just the anxiety outcome. It even generalises some well known conditions, each one with their own causes and preferred treatments, as just anxiety.

This can be harmful for many people with conditions that go beyond a high amount of sustained stress. The later is what to me this book is about. The former are conditions that, if not understood properly, will inevitably end in up the same syntoms this book tries to fight, plus a bigger feeling of despair.

In fact, that treating the symptoms approach is something that medicine and healthcare in general is trying to overcome for the last decades. Fortunately, we are making a lot of progress by better understating, treating, and preventing the causes of our health problems. This book goes in the opposite direction and should be read with lots of scepticism. In fact the author boldly claims that, as a victim of anxiety, understand the problem better that the whole medical profession (like if there are not doctors that could have experienced anxiety and observed millions of people suffering from it, studied it, etc).

On the positive side, the author shows a healthy approach to dealing with its acute anxiety problems. Not allowing the condition to define yourself and have a more confident and relaxed approach is helpful. The syntoms (e.g. fear) are emotions and not the condition itself, and that is something that can be deal with when they appear. In fact, with a lot of conscious work, one can be trained to deal with anxiety the same way its trained (unconsciously) to be anxious. Same way we can fight other habits. Despite this being very hard, it could improve the condition. The problem is that the approach is poorly explained and lacks rigor.

So if there are more serious conditions (e.g. OCD) behind this anxiety habit than our way of dealing with normal daily issue, the problem won’t go away. And the opposite is also true. Some anxiety disorders are just habits that can be deal with as such, being aware and building more healthy habits. For those this book might have provided useful help if more rigorously approached by its author.

And by the way, against what this book claims, sustained stress and anxiety can actually increase the risk of deadly conditions such as heart attacks, metabolic problems, etc. So it is a serious health threat.

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Southern Gal

The best book I have read about anxiety by far

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 5, 2019

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I have read many books regarding generalised anxiety and panic disorders. This is the best book I have read by a mile. It is simple straight to the point and I feel like I can be free from panic attacks after waking up this morning wondering if I would be stuck with my symptoms forever after having panic attacks every other day. At the end of this book the author talks you through a panic attack so you can read it when you feel one coming on. I decided to read it out loud and record it on my phone so I can listen to it when I feel an attack brewing. I even slightly tailored it to me. I'm going to put this book to the test and edit my review later. This book is a saviour today!

35 people found this helpful

Faye Louise Shaw

FANTASTIC BOOK HELPED ME REALLY UNDERSTAND ANXIETY AND WHAT IT IS!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 3, 2019

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Wow this book is fantastic! For many years i have suffered anxiety and all the feelings it comes with i never really understood what waa going on with my mind and body until now!! I have read this on my kindle and its given me comfort and really helped me when the flutters of anxiety have appeared! Now i understand its all about rewiring the brain and the thought process. Now i look at anxiety like a Big lion or a tiger thats right behind me in a cage and its roaring and dying to get out to get me but i am not allowing it! I will not be beaten by this! Reading this book i have now seen off a fair few developing anxiety episodes they have not fully developed at all because i just tell myself its just a bit of anxiety its going to be alright it will pass soon and its going to be okay again.
I feel this book has given me some strength to face anxiety rather than fear it. I no longer think i am dying or having a heart attack as joshua has described all the feelings that come with anxiety and panic!
I am now about to download the 2nd of his books
Thank you for helping me understand this Joshua

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GR

A MUST FOR ANXIETY SUFFERERS

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 25, 2019

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A self-help book written clearly and in "layman's terms", PANICKING ABOUT PANIC is essential reading for anybody who suffers from the debilitating effects of anxiety. The author has been through it himself, which adds an extra level of sincerity and warmth to his writing, and he gets straight to the point from the beginning, never falling victim to tedious and nebulous technical jargon. He lays everything out with admirable clarity, and provides plenty of examples to emphasize all the key aspects of this troublesome - and very worrying - affliction. The fact that the book is not too lengthy is also a bonus, as it makes picking it up and going back to it far less daunting than, say, if it clocked in at 400 pages! Nevertheless, it covers everything in sufficient detail, and reading it was, for me, remarkably therapeutic. It's almost like you're having anxiety and its effects explained to you by a very kindly (and never patronising) person who speaks from personal experience. Truly excellent.

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Jake

If you have Anxiety, and I mean real Anxiety, then BUY THIS BOOK!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 31, 2020

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This is my first ever review for a product on Amazon, it’s just not something I usually do, but I feel compelled to do one for this book, simply because if you are someone like me, this book is needed. I am currently 7/8 months deep into what’s been possibly the scariest and most awful period of my life. I seemingly out of the blue suffered a panic attack in work and the spiral I fell into has been relentless ever since. I’ll spare any more detail, but if you suffer from Anxiety or Panic attacks, then you know exactly the fear I’m referring to, and the day to say symptoms that you experience. This book, if nothing else, gives understanding and content at a time where that has felt impossible to come by. Anxiety has become somewhat of a vicious circle for me, constantly trying to assess what’s wrong, and constantly attributing my experiences to a wide array of different ailments. When you’re dealing with this it’s easy to convince yourself that no one knows what it’s like and that your situation is unique and dangerous, THIS IS NOT TRUE. This book alleviates a lot of these thoughts, as I read it, I find myself smirking, because time after time, things that I do and think and happen to me, are described, and things I fear on a daily basis are painted in the light they actually sit in. One thing I think all Anxious people strive for, is reassurance, the problem with Anxiety is, it’s not tangible, it creeps up on you at a sub conscious level, and so when it manifests itself with the physical symptoms (that unless you have experienced you will not understand or attribute to anxiety) you panic that something serious is wrong with you. I feel like everyone who suffers with Anxiety simply wants a concrete explanation of what’s occurring, why it’s occurring, and what to do to help stop it, but this is hard to come by from people who don’t have a full understanding of what you are going through. “Just relax, don’t overthink, stop worrying, chill out, who cares what people think” all spring to mind as pieces of careless advice from people, but they don’t understand the day to day torment you are going through. This book helps, this book offers a lot of reassurance, and you know the author has experienced Anxiety, because I find that the book describes my situation absolutely perfectly. If you are suffering at the moment, do not hesitate to buy this book, I am not out of the situation yet, and it won’t happen over night, but I feel like I am on my way, and this book has certainly been an antagonist for that.

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