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Do you turn all your molehills into insurmountable mountains? This accessible and engaging book will guide you along the path to stop catastrophizing so that you can reclaim control, achieve your goals, and live a happier life.
Is your worrying keeping you up all night, eroding your self-confidence, paralyzing your ability to make decisions, and harming your physical health? Excessive worrying is a problem that affects everyone at some point in their lives, but for some people it can become a lifelong affliction. Catastrophic worry can turn even imagined setbacks into a cascade of devastating events, impacting your sleep, self-confidence, decision making, problem solving, ability to cope, and overall health. So, how can you put an end to this worst-case habit?
In this guide, leading worry expert Graham Davey explains the science of why we worry, and offers a clear path to stopping catastrophic worry so you can regain control and live a happier life. Focusing first on the psychological processes that contribute to catastrophizing, you'll gain a solid, research-based understanding of where your worry comes from, with insight into how it can snowball. You'll also learn how to assess your own level of catastrophic worrying, and find exercises that directly address those processes to help you establish healthy habits, manage your mood and anxiety, and make decisions with confidence.
With these easy-to-follow tips and exercises for letting go of anxiety, lifting your mood, and managing your catastrophizing, you'll learn how to live with uncertainty and embrace a life free of unnecessary worry.
Author Notes
Graham Davey, PhD , is emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Sussex, UK, where his research interests are anxiety, worry, phobias, and the role of the disgust emotion in psychopathology. He has written a range of teaching and research books, most recently on clinical psychology and psychopathology. He is also past president of the British Psychological Society, and a founding editor in chief of the Journal of Experimental Psychopatholog y. He lives in Brighton, UK.
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According to psychologist Davey, 90-percent of the things we worry about never happen. So why do we spend so much energy on them. What was initially an impetus to help our ancestors escape predators and search for food has evolved into churning stomachs and sweaty palms over things like late-arriving loved ones and unpaid bills. Worriers are not born but shaped, says Davey, by their experiences. In a twisted way, we're being rewarded for our anguish when everything works out. Davey loads his chapters with exercises and references to online worksheets to help readers determine their worry-style. He helps them classify their concerns by importance and the possibility of resolving them and encourages readers to keep worry diaries and set specific times for focusing on them. Worry can be a useful way to assess risks, but successful planning and problem-solving can only happen when worry is controlled. With COVID-19, economic challenges, and global political unrest and war, these are tense times for all of us. Davey offers commonsensical and practical ways to cope.
