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Anxiety is in many ways a blessing. It wards off dangers, preserves life, and makes you aware of obnoxious things that you can change -- when it is healthy anxiety, that is, involving feelings of concern, caution, and vigilance. Unhealthy anxiety is quite different. It leads to paralyzing panic, obsessive worry, and phobias that prevent you from doing things that you conceive of as dangerous but are not. Unhealthy anxiety inhibits you from enjoying everyday activities and relationships, makes you see them as too "risky". It causes you to perform poorly, preoccupies you wastefully, and stops your creativity.
Fortunately, by following the rules of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) set forth in this book, you can control your anxiety before it controls you. You can stop it in its tracks, if you allow yourself to admit one important fact: Things and people alone don't make you anxious. You do. Your unrealistic expectations produce your needless anxiety.
How do they do this? By letting the must factor steer your course through life. You insist that you must achieve outstandingly -- in business, sports, relationships. You demand from yourself that you must get what you want all the time, must be completely safe, must never suffer adversity. And what happens when all your musts do not translate into reality? You panic and become depressed.
How to Control Your Anxiety Before It Controls You provides you with scores of thinking, feeling, and action methods for controlling anxiety. The book describes many real cases of anxiety that Dr. Ellis has treated successfully, including those that deal with performance anxiety, as well as social, job hunting, love, sex, and other forms ofanxiety. The book, employing the precepts of REBT, includes over 200 rational maxims that y
Author Notes
Albert Ellis was a clinical psychologist and a marriage counselor. He was born on September 27, 1913 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ellis originated the rational-emotive therapy movement, which ignores Freudian theories and advocates the belief that emotions come from conscious thought "as well as internalized ideas of which the individual may be unaware." At first, Ellis' books on marital romance and sexuality were criticized by some as being radical and sensational; however, few realized that Ellis was merely laying the groundwork for modern sex education.
Ellis was educated at the City College of New York Downtown and at Columbia University, where he received a Ph.D. in psychology in 1943. He taught for a number of years at Rutgers University, New Jersey, and the Union Graduate School. He was executive director of the Institute for Rational Living, Inc., in New York City. Ellis was the author of Sex and the Liberated Man, Sex Without Guilt, and Sex Without Guilt in the Twenty-First Century.
Despite his health issues, Ellis never stopped working with the assistance of his wife, Australian psychologist Debbie Joffe Ellis. In April 2006, Ellis was hospitalized with pneumonia, and had to stay in either the hospital or the rehabilitation facility. He eventually returned to his home --- the top floor of the Albert Ellis Institute. He died there on July 24, 2007 in his wife's arms. Ellis had authored and co-authored more than 80 books and 1200 articles during his lifetime. He was 93 when he died.
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