Self Help for Your Nerves : Learn to Relax and Enjoy Life Again by Overcoming Stress and Fear

This is the first anxiety book that has actually helped me. I’ve read and tried so many different books and therapists, but none of them really helped that much. I reference this book and come back to it all the time. Whenever I start obsessing over my heart rate or another physical symptom from anxiety, I go to the page where she talks about what I’m dealing with. Dr. Claire Weekes revolutionized how people see and treat anxiety and mental illness. She is the first author and person to make me feel truly seen. There is one or two sections that are a little out of date, such has the chapter on electric shock therapy, but otherwise this book is a life saver. She does an amazing job at explaining what it feels like living with anxiety or nervous illness. It made me feel seen and not alone. Her belief of facing, accepting, floating, and then letting time pass has truly helped me make huge leaps in my recovery. For the first time, I was actually able to understand everything I felt and was going through. She has a deep understanding of what it is like to experience anxiety. For reference, I have dealt with general anxiety disorder and health anxiety/ocd and this has helped greatly.

Very helpful. Seems like the genesis of ACT.

Dr. Claire Weekes gives easy to understand help. She explains anxiety and depression.

I’m the first few chapters in. She writes like an old grandma you wish you would have had. I think she could assure the most anxious of people. She has such a different approach and I think it’s incredibly refreshing. I’ve heard the hype about Claire Weekes and I’m glad I understand it now.

I am indebited to "Self Help for your Nerves" for the very major role it played in my recovery from depression back in the early 1990s. Only after I read it did I truly understand what was wrong with me and how I had gotten into such a state. When I put into practice the amazing, practical advice shared in this book, hope re-entered my life as I began making great leaps forward in my recovery. Here are some excerpts from my diary, dated 28th July 1990, written after reading the book: "This book goes on to...describe EVERY single thing I have been suffering from for the past eight months...I had no idea all of the strange things in my mind, body, and emotions, were ALL interlinked and caused by the same thing! And it even says how I've been sitting and wondering what happened to me, and wondering if I'll ever be the same again? The book explains everything, right down to obsessive thoughts... "And for the last 8 months, as always, I've reacted to these distressing symptoms in the same way. I have been scared of them, and feared all the many side effects and things that were going wrong with my mind, body, and emotions. And my other reaction has been to fight against it. And now I have learned from this book that these two reactions are the wrong reactions, because they both only make the symptoms worse worse... "This book has taught me how to react so that the [the fear-adrenalin-fear cycle] will be stopped. And it's teaching me how to react whenever it strikes again in the future."

I have done a lot of reading in the self-help genre. This book looked great online, and it did have a few helpful hints here and there. Not as good as some other books along these lines that I have read.

I could hardly believe my eyes when reading parts of this book, as many of the symptoms Dr Weekes describes fit me almost exactly. I felt like I finally found someone that really understands what I’m going through. The skills that Dr Weekes teaches (facing, accepting, floating, letting time pass) have been very helpful for me. I’ve had a lot of experience with CBT (of which the techniques in this book share a lot with) but this really helped solidify many of the concepts. In addition, Dr Weekes instills confidence and makes you believe you can succeed. If you are unsure, you can find videos online of Dr Weekes being interviewed where she covers some of this material so you can see if it (and if she) resonates with you. The book has helped me and I’m in awe of how insightful and far ahead of her time Dr Weekes was. I feel this is timeless material.

This book has saved a lot of lives. If you have anxiety, read this first.

helpful information for managing extreme stress and anxiety. makes you realise it’s not such a big deal if you have the awareness

Claire Weekes saved my life. Literally. I was coming from a nervous breakdown, big depression, completely hostage to nervous symptoms of anxiety, panic and stress, i was living in hell. Eventually I became agoraphobic. This book was the beginning of my recovery, it was such a relief when I realized that someone understood exactly the state I was in, and how to deal with and get out of that situation. I realized that right away in the first paragraph of the book. It was like having a doctor completely dedicated to me by my side, talking to me. Thank you Dr Claire Weekes.

COMMON SENSE FAMILY DOCTOR STYLE ABOVE ALL - REASSURING, I AM TOLD

Una guia para tratar el estres paralizante por parte de un profesional de la salud con experiencia clinica, no de un "emprendedor" moderno y popular de los que te dicen lo que ya sabes. Facil y util de leer

Was soll man sagen , Claire Weeks Verstand was in einem Menschen vor geht der ein sensibilisiertes Nervensystems hatt durch eigene Erfahrung und bietet gleichzeitig die Lösung dafür an !