Summary of Beverly D. Flaxington's Self-Talk for a Calmer You

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#1 There are two types of anxiety: the everyday feeling of worry or uneasiness, and phobias or other similar conditions. In this chapter, we’ll talk about both of these types.

#2 Anxiety is a feeling of worry that something bad is going to happen. It is difficult to identify a cause or reason for your anxiety, and it is just a feeling that things aren’t right. You may have experienced traumatic events in your childhood, disappointments, or other troubles.

#3 Anxiety is a feeling of worry, fear, or nervousness. It is different from fear, which is a response to negative stimuli. Everyday anxiety is the free-floating feeling that something is wrong with the world or your life. It can cause sleeplessness, lack of appetite, overeating, low-grade depression, and a variety of physical ailments.

#4 There are a number of diagnosed anxiety disorders. These disorders are a more serious form of anxiety that often require medical treatment. They include panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, social anxiety disorder, phobias, and generalized anxiety disorder.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822526945

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

There are two types of anxiety: the everyday feeling of worry or uneasiness, and phobias or other similar conditions. In this chapter, we’ll talk about both of these types.

#2

Anxiety is a feeling of worry that something bad is going to happen. It is difficult to identify a cause or reason for your anxiety, and it is just a feeling that things aren’t right. You may have experienced traumatic events in your childhood, disappointments, or other troubles.

#3

Anxiety is a feeling of worry, fear, or nervousness. It is different from fear, which is a response to negative stimuli. Everyday anxiety is the free-floating feeling that something is wrong with the world or your life. It can cause sleeplessness, lack of appetite, overeating, low-grade depression, and a variety of physical ailments.

#4

There are a number of diagnosed anxiety disorders. These disorders are a more serious form of anxiety that often require medical treatment. They include panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, social anxiety disorder, phobias, and generalized anxiety disorder.

#5

It is important to understand how anxiety affects you and find a path to overcoming it. You must find a way to keep anxiety at a distance, but once you start to turn your self-talk around and push anxiety away, you’ll find that these symptoms disappear.

#6

You can start to turn things around by recognizing that you’re anxious, and pinpointing the site of that anxiety. Fears develop as a result of some real-life or imagined experience, stress is a normal reaction to the everyday experiences of life, and your past life experiences can contribute to anxious states.

#7

Anxiety can be the result of actual events, or it can be the result of faulty thinking. Negative self-talk works on both types of anxiety, but it’s most pernicious in the second type: when a person has experienced an