Worry convinces us there's danger, and then tricks us into getting into fight, flight, or freeze mode—even when there is no danger.

Based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), this book is designed to help you break the cycle of worry. By the time I read through the second half I had highlighted and noted so many passages I might as well have just made a huge note of the whole book. The techniques in this book, rather than encouraging you to avoid or try to resist anxiety, shows you how to see the trick that underlies your anxious thoughts, and how avoidance can backfire and make anxiety worse.No wonder he figured out worry better than most people have—he was able to see worry for what it was—a trick that we play on ourselves to try to make everything better only to actually make everything worse. Carbonell offers strategies for identifying and challenging negative thoughts and replacing them with more positive and realistic ones.

He gives you so many unique and different ways for each individual to pick and choose which strategies work best for him or her. I’m not referring here to situations in which your thoughts lead you to take action, and those actions influence the future. Frees up lots of space to live and enjoy, rather than obsessively seek perfect mind control--which cannot happen because of the design of the mind.

Prophesying worry involves predicting negative outcomes, while torturing worry involves dwelling on the potential negative outcomes. You might be aware of how illogical or debilitating all this worry is, so you try to address it from that angle. He is also the “coach” of the popular self-help site, anxietycoach, and his books are all available for purchase there.

really didn't help me deal well with my worry, so I kicked off 2021 with this personal development book, and I learned a lot! The important part is to learn that if one does have a brain so inclined that the more one fights it, the more the brain is going to fight back and the worse the situation will get. Professor David made me realize I can have a relationship with worry and can still be alive with the external world and not run from it as I always do.It makes us question ourselves and our decisions, causes us to worry about the future, and fills our days with dread and emotional turbulence. He explains that not every method is going to work for every individual but that you can only help yourself by giving each method a try. It leads you to invest your time and energy in worry, and struggles with worry, rather than in being the person you wanted to be and living the life you hoped for. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. If excessive worry affects the quality of your life, you owe it to yourself to get a copy of The Worry Trickby David Carbonell.