Anxiety
A Very Short Introduction

I intend to read all of the Oxford Very Short Introductions, and have devised a system wherein I read one of them, and then buy another when I have finished it. This checks my inclination toward buying sprees, and it ensures that I actually read and finish the texts in question. First and foremost I......more

I pretty certainly have generalised anxiety disorder (GAD). I score 19/21 on the GAD 7 test, even medicated. According to this book's tests, I get 80/80 on the Penn State worry questionnaire, indicating GAD; 39/72 on their OCD test, which indicates OCD as well; 46/88 for a single traumatic event on......more

As our concerns with mental health keep increasing, and as the conversation has become wider and more accessible, it is important to try and understand the basic elements understood about how Anxiety operates, how it manifests its self differently in different people. Mental health is a massively lar......more

'Anxiety' is a word used by psychologists as a blanket term for what we would would usually think of as a wide range of emotions. The authors of this book, Freeman and Freeman (brothers?) are an academic psychologist and a writer/editor who specialises in self-help. Consequently, the book takes on a......more

Anxiety is a fundamental emotion, as central a part of being human as feeling happy, sad, or angry. Emotions, for their part, are crucial in helping us survive—without them, our species (from an evolutionary standpoint) would have died off a long time ago. “The happiness our ancestors felt after dev......more