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Book: Mental Health Journal: Anxiety and Depression Journal

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Book Title:

Mental Health Journal: Anxiety and Depression Journal. Mental Health Journal & Mood Tracker – Thoughts and Feelings Tracker – PTSD and Depression … Goals, Promote Positive Thinking & Gratitude.

Author(s): R. Roslinda.

Year: 2020.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Independently Published.

Type(s): Paperback.

Synopsis:

This Mental Health Journal & Mood Tracker is designed to help you keep track of your mental and emotional wellbeing. Ideal for anyone struggling with anxiety and mood disorders: depression, ADHD, Bipolar etc. The journal features a 12 monthly daily mood tracker, pages for you to write down your feelings and thoughts. Keep notes on things you are grateful for and your achievements. There are also spaces for you to jot down stuff like, things you did well at today, things that made you smile, things that you had fun doing and enjoyed, things you did that made you feel proud. You can also make notes on goals you want to accomplish.

Features:

  • Mood Tracker For 12 Months: Angry, Ashamed, Confused, Excited….
  • Anxiety Levels Chart-Mood Chart-Section with writing prompts: How do I feel?, Today I am grateful for…, Something I did well today, I felt proud when…
  • and many more!

On This Day … 24 October

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People (Births)

  • 1959 – Ruth Perednik, English-Israeli psychologist and academic.

Ruth Perednik

Ruth Perednik (née Kestenbaum, born in London, 24 October 1959) is an English-born Israeli psychologist, pioneer in the field of selective mutism.

Background

Ruth Perednik graduated from University College London (1983) and the Institute of Education, University of London (1984) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Educational Psychology, 2002). Her thesis in England was on The Relation Between Mothers’ Attentiveness to Toddlers and Child’s Attachment to Mother and in Israel she completed her thesis on Selective Mutism in Immigrant Families, under the supervision of Professor Yoel Elizur, with a grant from the Martin and Vivian Levin Centre for the Development of the Child and Adolescent. Ruth Perednik taught at the Lincoln School, and at the Yehuda Halevi Teacher’s Training College, Argentina (1986-1987), where she lectured on Educational Psychology. She resides in the outskirts of Jerusalem with her husband, Gustavo Perednik; they have five children.

Area of Expertise

Ruth Perednik has been specialising in the treatment of children with Selective Mutism and other anxiety disorders over the past 20 years. She has developed a treatment method for Selective Mutism based on cognitive behavioural techniques, in the framework of her work in the Jerusalem Psychological Services in the Jerusalem Municipality. Perednik heads a treatment clinic for children with Selective Mutism. She lectures and trains parents and therapists in Europe, the Americas and Asia. She has developed a Selective Mutism treatment manual which has been published in English and Chinese. She also published a Hebrew language treatment manual together with Professor Yoel Elitzur, of the Hebrew University.

The innovative element of Perednik’s treatment method is treating the child or teen in his natural environment (home and school sessions), and not in a clinic setting, since this is where the symptoms of the selective mutism hit hard and must be alleviated. This was considered iconoclastic when Perednik first published her treatment method, yet it has become generally accepted, and is the treatment of choice in several international selective mutism treatment centres. Perednik advocates for accountability of therapists when treating children, so that evidence-based interventions are the treatments of choice, facilitating effective therapy.

Book: The Anxiety Toolkit

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Book Title:

Anxiety Toolkit, The – Strategies for Fine-Tuning Your Mind and Moving Past Your Stuck Points.

Author(s): Alice Boyes, PhD.

Year: 2015.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: End of line Clearance Book.

Type(s): Paperback.

Synopsis:

Do you overthink before taking action? Are you prone to making negative predictions? Do you worry about the worst that could happen? Do you take negative feedback very hard? Are you self-critical? Does anything less than perfect performance feel like failure?

If any of these issues resonate with you, you are probably suffering from some degree of anxiety, and you’re not alone. The good news: while reducing your anxiety level to zero is not possible or useful (anxiety can actually be helpful!), you can learn to successfully manage symptoms – such as excessive rumination, hesitation, fear of criticism and paralysing perfection.

In The Anxiety Toolkit, Dr. Alice Boyes translates powerful, evidence-based tools used in therapy clinics into tips and tricks you can employ in everyday life. Whether you have an anxiety disorder, or are just anxiety-prone by nature, you will discover how anxiety works, strategies to help you cope with common anxiety ‘stuck’ points and a confidence that – anxious or not – you have all the tools you need to succeed in life and work.

Book: 30 Days 30 Ways to Overcome Anxiety

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Book Title:

30 Days 30 Ways to Overcome Anxiety.

Author(s): Bev Aisbett.

Year: 2019.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers.

Type(s): Paperback and Audio CD.

Synopsis:

Outlines a thirty day programme to overcoming anxiety, with daily exercises and mantras to help readers manage the emotion.

Book: The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques

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Book Title:

The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques.

Author(s): Margaret Wehrenberg.

Year: 2018.

Edition: Second (2nd).

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

The newly updated workbook companion for putting the top anxiety management techniques into practice, first edition released in 2008.

Brimming with exercises, worksheets, tips, and tools, this complete how-to workbook companion expands on the top 10 anxiety-busting techniques Margaret Wehrenberg presents in the earlier edition of this book, showing readers exactly how to put them into action.

From panic disorders, generalised anxiety, and social anxiety, to overall worry and stress, manifestations of anxiety are among the most common – and often debilitating – mental health complaints. But thanks to a flood of supporting brain research, effective, practical strategies have emerged that allow us to manage day-to-day anxiety on our own.

Here Dr. Wehrenberg offers us a trove of them, showing just how physical, emotional, and behavioral symptoms can be alleviated with targeted methods. Step-by-step exercises for practicing counter-cognition, mindfulness meditation, thought-stopping, and thought-replacement, “breathing minutes,” demand delays, cued relaxation, affirmations, and much, much more are presented – all guaranteed to overcome your anxious thoughts.

The accompanying audio downloads feature an array of calming, author-guided exercises including targeted breath work, muscle relaxation, mindfulness, and much more.

Book: The 7 Principles of Stress

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Book Title:

7 Principles of Stress: Extend Life, Stay Fit, and Ward off Fat. What You Didn’t Know About How Stress Can Reboot Your Mind, Energy, and Sex Life.

Author(s): Ori Hofmekler.

Year: 2017.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: North Atlantic Books, US.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Ori Hofmekler, acclaimed author of The Warrior Diet and one of the first proponents of intermittent fasting, challenges conventional wisdom about diet, fitness, and anti-aging with a new approach to health that uses stress to live longer, stay fit, and ward off fat.

Supported by cutting-edge research, this book redefines the term “nutrition” as it reveals the stress-mimicking nutrients that yield the same benefits as fasting and exercising.

At the core of the book is the biology of stress and the way it affects key aspects of life from feeding and sexual behavior to mental and physical performance. Hofmekler demonstrates that that there is a thin line between beneficial stress and harmful stress, and shows how to put knowledge of the difference into powerful practice.

His book is a call to action – a manifesto of living life to its utmost evolutionary potential, under stress, as nature intended.

Book: Your Anxiety Beast and You

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Book Title:

Your Anxiety Beast and You – A Compassionate Guide to Living in an Increasingly Anxious World.

Author(s): Eric Goodman, PhD.

Year: 2020.

Edition: First (1st), Illustrated Edition.

Publisher: Exisle Publishing.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Just like The Beast in the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, anxiety is an emotion that society initially misjudges as the villain. Your Anxiety Beast and You is a kinder, more compassionate approach for people suffering from anxiety. Rather than living with an enemy inside your mind, you are encouraged to see anxiety for what it really is – an inner hero. It is always trying to protect you from threats, however, it is completely confused about what are true threats in the modern world.

Learn how to cope with your anxiety and train it to be a better inner-companion through integrating therapeutic methods from compassion-focused therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Gain an understanding of why society stigmatises anxiety and gain a better understanding of your own anxiety beast with humour and compassion. Your Anxiety Beast and You takes you through step-by-step strategies to cope with the howling of the beast in your mind, the physical effects of anxiety on your body, and then focuses on ways to come up with ‘teachable moments’ for your anxiety to learn that what you fear is not actually a threat.

With over 25 years of experience helping people with anxiety disorders and OCD, Dr Goodman aims to help you make peace with the reality of your anxiety. And then to help you re-focus on making your anxiety a better companion.

Book: Hallucinations

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Book Title:

Hallucinations

Author(s): Oliver Sacks.

Year: 2013.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Picador.

Type(s): Hardcover, Paperback, Audiobook, and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Have you ever seen something that was not really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing?

Hallucinations do not belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. In some conditions, hallucinations can lead to religious epiphanies or even the feeling of leaving one’s own body. Humans have always sought such life-changing visions, and for thousands of years have used hallucinogenic compounds to achieve them.

In Hallucinations, with his usual elegance, curiosity, and compassion, Dr Oliver Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organisation and structure of our brains, how they have influenced every culture’s folklore and art, and why the potential for hallucination is present in us all, a vital part of the human condition.

Book: Hack Your Anxiety

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Book Title:

Hack Your Anxiety – How to Make Anxiety Work for You in Life, Love, and All That You Do.

Author(s): Alicia H. Clark, PsyD.

Year: 2018.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Sourcebooks.

Type(s): Paperback and Audiobook.

Synopsis:

What if the way you are thinking about anxiety is off base? What if there is something about anxiety that can be used for you instead of against you?

In this revolutionary book, Dr. Alicia H. Clark recognises anxiety as an unsung hero in the path to success and well-being. Anxiety is a powerful motivating force that can be harnessed to create a better you, if you have got the right tools. Hack Your Anxiety provides a road map to approach anxiety in a new – and empowering – light so you can stop anxiety from stopping you.

In this book on anxiety, Clark will help you deal with:

  • Panic attacks;
  • Anxiety in your relationship;
  • Parenting and youth;
  • Work, money and successSocial support;
  • 10 myths and misconceptions; and
  • And more.

Weaving together modern neuroscience, case studies, interviews, and personal anecdotes, Hack Your Anxiety demonstrates how anxiety can be reclaimed as a potent force for living our best lives.

Book: The End of Mental Illness

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Book Title:

The End of Mental Illness: How Neuroscience Is Transforming Psychiatry and Helping Prevent or Reverse Mood and Anxiety Disorders, ADHD, Addictions, PTSD, Psychosis, Personality Disorders, and More.

Author(s): Daniel G. Amen.

Year: 2020.

Edition: First (1st), Illustrated Edition.

Publisher: Tyndale Momentum.

Type(s): Hardcover, Paperback, Audiobook, and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Though incidence of these conditions is skyrocketing, for the past four decades standard treatment hasn’t much changed, and success rates in treating them have barely improved, either. Meanwhile, the stigma of the “mental illness” label—damaging and devastating on its own—can often prevent sufferers from getting the help they need.

Brain specialist and bestselling author Dr. Daniel Amen is on the forefront of a new movement within medicine and related disciplines that aims to change all that. In The End of Mental Illness, Dr. Amen draws on the latest findings of neuroscience to challenge an outdated psychiatric paradigm and help readers take control and improve the health of their own brain, minimising or reversing conditions that may be preventing them from living a full and emotionally healthy life.

The End of Mental Illness will help you discover:

  • Why labeling someone as having a “mental illness” is not only inaccurate but harmful.
  • Why standard treatment may not have helped you or a loved one – and why diagnosing and treating you based on your symptoms alone so often misses the true cause of those symptoms and results in poor outcomes.
  • At least 100 simple things you can do yourself to heal your brain and prevent or reverse the problems that are making you feel sad, mad, or bad.
  • How to identify your “brain type” and what you can do to optimise your particular type.
  • Where to find the kind of health provider who understands and uses the new paradigm of brain health.