Panic Attacks Workbook: A Guided Program for Beating the Panic Trick

Panic is an insidious trick that makes you fear simple, everyday things: driving, shopping, socializing, traveling and more. The first attack comes out of nowhere, and then panic tricks you into responding in precisely the ways that invite the panic back, again and again.

BUT IT’S JUST A TRICK

The panic trick is highly effective and has drawn millions of people into panic attacks and phobias. But you can outsmart and beat this trick. Panic Attacks Workbook shows you how, with a step-by-step guide from panic to recovery. The proven methods in this book show how to identify the panic trick and empower you with the tools to address your fears and solve this debilitating problem.

STEPS TO RECOVERY

Part 1 details precisely what the panic trick is and how it operates. It also includes exercises to help you find evidence of the trick at work in your own life.

Part 2 starts you on the path to recovery with hands-on lessons that prepare you for the primary program in Part 3.

Part 3 shows you how to design and implement your own desensitization and exposure program that will free you from panic attacks and phobias.

Part 4 offers additional help with the five most common phobias—claustrophobia, social phobia, and the fears of flying, public speaking and driving.

"Dr. Carbonell, a long-time colleague of mine, has written a wonderful, inspiring and comprehensive guidebook for winning over panic attacks. While panic attacks are terrifying for the sufferer, they take over territory in a person’s life by playing a very simple but powerful game. In Panic Attacks Workbook you will find the solid and clever strategies needed to win this mental game and take back your life." - R. Reid Wilson, Ph.D., author, Don’t Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks

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All Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review:
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Panic Attacks, 2008-12-28
I bought this book for my mom. I believe that she is enjoying it. The seller was great.


0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Expose yourself, 2008-06-20
If you are experiencing panic attacks of significant intensity with or without agoraphobia, this is a great book to consider. Dr. Carbonell's sense of humor is tops and his writing will make you feel at ease. It is, however, a self-guided program that takes extra guts and moderate motivation, which is sometimes hard to muster when you're experiencing severe anxiety. I tried it for a few weeks and it helped me get back on my feet.


0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

I wish I had had this book 20 years ago..., 2008-06-04
I think the way the author deconstructs panic attacks, in a thorough, friendly and humorous way, makes it easy to see just how harmless they really are, regardless of how painful it seems at the time. I am learning to apply the techniques to manage panic attacks, and have already seen results. I have even found relief with anticipatory anxiety (a whole chapter on that). There are also helpful chapters devoted to public speaking and flying.

I also found it helpful that the author had suffered with his own panic issues and relates how he faced those and handled them. I think that goes a long way to lending credence to the work. Some other authors I have read have seemed too insensitive on the issue and have been too clinical, which caused me to drop their techniques.

I would strongly recommend this book to anyone who has suffered with panic attacks. And DO the exercises and answer the questions! It's a workbook, after all.


0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

Ultimately, Panic attacks are....harmless., 2008-01-01
This is without a doubt the best material for anxiety/panic attack recovery. I found myself laughing(in joy and motivation) at a lot of the questions Dr. Carbonell asks- partly because they relate so well to me and forced me to think of how silly my notions of "danger" and "fear" as it relates to anxiety actually are. The author literally dismantles and tears down anxiety for what it actually is- a trick, nothing more, nothing less. I felt as though my long held stuggle with this apparent giant monster of anxiety/panic had been slapped in the face and stomped on. Ater reading this book, I can't help but to think that anxiety is the hack illness of all illnesses. In other words," why am I panicing over something thats completely harmless?" Great Book.


0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

excellent, 2007-12-29
A client told me about this book. It is essentially the same process that I use in therapy. Very good self-help book!

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