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The Worry Trick
- How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It
- Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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Summary
Are you truly in danger or has your brain simply "tricked" you into thinking you are? In The Worry Trick, psychologist and anxiety expert David Carbonell shows how anxiety hijacks the brain and offers effective techniques to help you break the cycle of worry, once and for all.
Anxiety is a powerful force. It makes us question ourselves and our decisions, causes us to worry about the future, and fills our days with dread and emotional turbulence. Based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this audiobook is designed to help you break the cycle of worry.
Worry convinces us there's danger, and then tricks us into getting into fight, flight, or freeze mode - even when there is no danger. The techniques in this audiobook, rather than encouraging you to avoid or try to resist anxiety, show you how to see the trick that underlies your anxious thoughts, and how avoidance can backfire and make anxiety worse.
If you're ready to start observing your anxious feelings with distance and clarity - rather than getting tricked once again - this audiobook will show you how.
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- Terry Miles
- 20-11-17
Truly awful
This book successfully replaced my worries with intense irritation. Like a lot of American self-help books it is 95% padding and stories of patients recounted very slowly. In future I’m going to avoid any book by someone with a name with middle initial and a PhD after it.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-11-17
great book
the book provides good techniques to combat obsessive and persistent worrying using a counterintuitive approach. Like many I was struggling so much with fighting thoughts in my head and attempting to reassure myself, this ultimately did not serve me well and I felt a new approach was needed. I can say this book has helped me so much, it will assist you to sit with worry without trying to hide it or argue with it. Give it a go I say
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- PANAGIOTIS GALANIS
- 26-11-17
An excellent book for everyone.
An excellent book, useful for everyone, not just for those that feel generally anxious. Gives understanding on how anxiety works and how can be best addressed by those that suffer, and those around them in simple language and natural ways of communication.
Simply excellent.
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- Mr. David Miladinovic
- 30-11-16
This book I can say has saved my life
Before I was so confused about anxiety and the constant uncontrollable worries I have, which were leading to depression, which led to suicidal thought's. this book has helped me understand alot about these problems and has helped me finally move on with my life. I would recommend this book to everyone so they can get an understanding of what anxiety is and how seriously it effects some people. and I would especially recommend this book to people who suffer with anxiety, as it helped me and with an open mind will help you, please don't suffer in silence like I did.
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- MrsMum
- 28-12-18
Unhelpful
Unhelpful. Actually made me worry more! The book provides an outline of various techniques to minimise worrying, but the author’s obvious total lack of personal experience in this area meant the book was written with a complete lack of empathy & understanding. I would recommend that anyone suffering from anxiety steer well clear of this book!
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- Michael Smith
- 08-01-17
easy and helpful
totally puts a different spin on the way I view my anxiety now. it's really helped.
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- Matthew L. Peskett
- 12-02-18
A condescending narrator with low empathy
The best audio books are narrated by their author and as a consequence are read naturally and with passion. This one sounds like it's narrated by the factual audio sub title guy on your TV. I gave up after 3 minutes of being talked to like a child.
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- M Ingledew
- 24-10-17
Sensible and sound
At times he could have been talking about me directly. Will have to listen again I am sure to remind myself of the techniques. Best line for me was thoughts are like the guard dogs in your mind, barking at everything..
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- colleen
- 11-09-19
I got as far as the 'singing' rhymes and I bailed!
Found myself skipping through big chunks of some chapters. The narrators voice grated on me more and more as the book went on. Toward the end he got VERY 'irritating American infomercial'
I threw in the towel when he started singing.
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- Oxana
- 06-06-18
nothing new
If it’s your first book about worrying it might be ok to read it. Unfortunately it just repeats well known information. I didn’t really get an answer what is the worry trick. After old good Dale Carnegie’s “How to stop worrying and start living” not really a hit.
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