How To Control Your Anxiety Before It Controls You

My anxiety is less now, freeing up time to goof off and/or address other issues such as anger, shyness, pride, and perfectionism. Et cetera.

Of course, part of me still gets annoyed (anger), and decides that if everything were perfect as it Should be, (perfectionism) and I had remembered my container of free chicken that they were going to throw away that I was unshy enough to ask for, that now they will throw away because I forgot it— that if I were perfect and better like I really am (pride), then everything would be okay and I wouldn’t need psychology. I would just need sex and cigarettes, right?

.... But I’m not trying to say that it isn’t worth the effort, it’s just a process, a web; it’s netting.

Much of what was in this book really doesn’t apply to me. For instance Ellis mentions and spends quite a bit of time using fear of public speaking and insecurities in people’s love lives as a springboard to coping with anxieties. Well, I taught school for 40 years, so getting up in front of an audience doesn’t bother me a bit. And at the age of 72 and having been married for almost 50 years, I have not anxieties in my love life. I did find much of what he said about “Irrational Beliefs” helpful. I wish he had had a section of geriatric anxiety, anxiety for old folks, because it is a pretty unique kind of anxiety. It often doesn’t include much of what he covers in the book (love life, speaking publicly, money problems, etc.). show more Maybe there are books devoted to exactly that topic. This book is very prescription and will undoubtedly help many people who try to cope with anxiety on their own. I recommend it. show less