Proven-effective tools for when you feel like the world is closing in on you.

Anxiety has many faces. It can look like chronic avoidance, rumination, fear of uncertainty, reassurance seeking, catastrophic thinking, or fear of losing control. There's more than a dozen recognized categories of anxiety, but they all have one thing in common--they all get in the way of living your life. Your work suffers, your family suffers, you suffer. But you don't have to. Written by psychologist and anxiety expert David A. Clark, this essential guide offers targeted, proven solutions to take charge of your anxiety--and your life.

This is What Anxiety Looks Like dives right into relatable case studies, using a story-based approach to help you overcome the 13 most common causes of anxiety, so you can live with less worry and fear. Drawing on powerful and evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and grounded in decades of research and clinical experience, Clarke offers real-world tips and strategies to help you find the relief you're seeking--starting right now.

With this guide, you'll also learn to:

• Identify the disturbing thoughts and habits that make your anxiety worse
• Use targeted skills to manage your symptoms
• Break the cycle of anxiety, worry, and catastrophic thinking
• Find lasting calm and peace of mind

In our increasingly uncertain world, there's plenty to worry about. But you can move past the mental habits that shape your anxiety--no matter what it looks like. This book will help you get started today.

A proven-effective CBT approach to help you break the cycle of repetitive negative thinking

If you suffer from anxiety or depression, chances are you also experience unwanted, distressing, and repetitive thoughts. These negative thoughts are often grounded in anger, guilt, shame, worry, humiliation, resentment, or regret. And the more you try to gain control over these thoughts, the more they seem to spiral out of your control. So, how can you break free from this self-defeating 'mind trap, ' and experience lasting peace and relief?

The Negative Thoughts Workbook offers a step-by-step program to help you target and effectively cope with negative thinking patterns. Based on effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) strategies, this practical guide outlines a transdiagnostic approach to managing the thoughts that drive your emotional distress and threaten your mental health and well-being. You are not condemned to a life of constant, chaotic, or disturbing thoughts. If you're ready to take shelter from the storm inside your head, the easy-to-follow activities in this evidence-based workbook will help you gain control over your cycles of negative thinking.

Discover powerful ways to:

• Identify your own thinking traps
• Deal with worry and anxiety
• Stop rumination before it takes over
• Confront shame and move beyond regret
• Find release from resentment

Mental health professionals, see also the state-of-the-art clinical reference Exposure Therapy for Anxiety, Second Edition, by Jonathan S. Abramowitz, Brett J. Deacon, and Stephen P. H. Whiteside.

Are your thoughts getting in the way of living your life? Based in cutting-edge neuroscience and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this important workbook will help you regain control from unwanted thoughts and get back to the things that matter.

Do you have unwanted, disturbing, upsetting, or weird thoughts that you just can't seem to shake? Violent or sexual thoughts that cause you to feel ashamed, anxious, or depressed? Maybe you think they mean something about you--and that thought scares you even more. While you may not be able to shut your thoughts off permanently, you can gain distance from them and improve your life. This step-by-step guide will show you how.

In The Anxious Thoughts Workbook, renowned psychologist David A. Clark presents a targeted, transdiagnostic approach to help you move past unwanted mental intrusions. You'll learn how to change the destructive patterns responsible for the persistence of anxious and depressive thinking, and strip these upsetting thoughts of their meaning--a process Clark refers to as detoxing. Finally, you'll learn to manage the feelings of shame that can accompany these thoughts.

Are you ready to move past your thoughts and start focusing on more important things? If so, the proven-effective techniques in this workbook will help you get started.

Practical and simple activities to help you break free from the anxious, intrusive, and unwanted thoughts that feed your anxiety and depression, so you can reach your goals and thrive!

Are negative, anxious thoughts getting in the way of living your life? You're not alone. The teen years are full of changes and challenges--especially in today's uncertain world. It's no wonder, then, that teens are feeling more anxious than ever! The good news is that you can move beyond these worrying thoughts, and get back to the things that matter.

Based in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this workbook offers a personalized approach to help you move past anxious thoughts for good. You'll learn how to change unhelpful and destructive thinking habits, stop seeing your thoughts as all-powerful facts, and manage the difficult emotions that can accompany these thoughts. Most importantly, you'll discover how to defeat toxic negativity, and find strength in positivity--so you can move forward in life with confidence!

If you're ready to stop letting your anxious thoughts control your life and keep you from being your very best, this workbook can show you how.

In these increasingly challenging times, kids and teens need mental health resources more than ever. With more than 1.6 million copies sold worldwide, Instant Help Books are easy to use, proven-effective, and recommended by therapists.

New to This Edition
*Reflects more than 15 years of major advances in clinical practice, theory, and research.
*Chapters on specific OCD subtypes: contamination, doubt and repeated checking, repugnant obsessions, and symmetry/order.
*Heightened clinical utility--includes more case vignettes and step-by-step procedures.
*Describes important refinements to exposure and response prevention, based on inhibitory learning.
*Reproducible materials now available online.

See also the ideal client recommendation, Getting Over OCD, Second Edition: A 10-Step Workbook for Taking Back Your Life, by Jonathan S. Abramowitz.

Mental health professionals, see also the state-of-the-art clinical reference Exposure Therapy for Anxiety, Second Edition, by Jonathan S. Abramowitz, Brett J. Deacon, and Stephen P. H. Whiteside.

Updating and reformulating Aaron T. Beck's pioneering cognitive model of anxiety disorders, this book is both authoritative and highly practical. The authors synthesize the latest thinking and empirical data on anxiety treatment and offer step-by-step instruction in cognitive assessment, case formulation, cognitive restructuring, and behavioral intervention. They provide evidence-based mini-manuals for treating the five most common anxiety disorders: panic disorder, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder. User-friendly features include vivid case examples, concise Clinician Guidelines that reinforce key points, and over three dozen reproducible handouts and forms.

Winner--American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award!

Aimed at everyone with a workshop, particularly home metalworkers, engineers, and professionals, use this guide to to make full use of a milling machine and enhance milling skills

Milling is one of the principal and most versatile machining processes for sizing parts in the workshop. Whether a professional engineer looking for advice, or an amateur looking to install your first milling machine, this book will show you how to make full use of your milling machine safely and effectively, and enhance your milling skills. Focusing on the commonly used vertical mill and vertical turret mill, and with practical advice and diagrams throughout, the book includes a guide to buying, installing, and using a small milling machine and accessories and basic cutting tool principles, with more advanced milling methods, including drilling, tapping, and reaming. There is also instruction on a variety of techniques ranging from work holding in the vice to using a rotary table.

*Nipping negativity in the bud.
*Making unhappiness less overwhelming.
*Defusing self-criticism and rumination.
*Boosting your energy and motivation for change.
*Feeling more confident and hopeful every day.

Using the practical tools in the book--forms, worksheets, and self-assessment quizzes--makes it easy to create and stick to a mood repair action plan. You can download and print additional copies of these tools as needed. The strategies that Dr. Clark provides are grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology research--and they work. Discover proven ways to start living a more satisfying and productive life.

Although once thought to be a rare and unusual condition, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has become increasingly a part of everyday discourse as it has gathered more and more media attention. News magazines and programs have done features on the disorder and its range of symptoms, and popular culture has depicted characters suffering from OCD, such as the eponymous detective in the UPN television program, Monk.

One facet of OCD that is just beginning to be widely known is that people with the disorder can present a wide range of symptoms. Some people with OCD wash compulsively, others hoard objects, while still others-the audience of this book-struggle with obsessive thoughts. The most effective treatment techniques vary from symptom to symptom. This is why New Harbinger launched, with the publication of Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding, a series of books designed to bring the latest coping strategies for specific OCD symptoms to the people who need them most. Since that first book, we have brought readers two more titles: Overcoming Compulsive Washing and Overcoming Compulsive Checking. The professional community and OCD sufferers alike have warmly received all three books.

This fourth book in the series addresses the needs of those who struggle with obsessive thoughts they perceive as violent, disgusting, or blasphemous. Psychologists estimate that more than 50 percent of OCD sufferers experience aggressive, religious, or sexual thoughts. The goal of this book is to help people understand the impact of their control efforts on their obsessional thoughts. It works to help them recognize that thoughts, in themselves, are not threatening, dangerous, or harmful. Rather, it is the compulsive strategies they develop for coping that make the thoughts seem so harmful. The book offers safe and effective exposure exercises readers can use to limit the effect obsessive thoughts have on their lives. In addition to self-care strategies, the book includes information about choosing and making the most of professional care.

Updating and reformulating Aaron T. Beck's pioneering cognitive model of anxiety disorders, this groundbreaking work is both authoritative and highly practical. The authors synthesize the latest thinking and empirical data on anxiety treatment and offer step-by-step instruction in cognitive assessment, case formulation, cognitive restructuring, and behavioral intervention. They provide evidence-based mini-manuals for treating the five most common anxiety disorders: panic disorder, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder. User-friendly features include vivid case examples, concise Clinician Guidelines that reinforce key points, and over three dozen reproducible handouts and forms.

See also Clark and Beck's related self-help resource, The Anxiety and Worry Workbook: The Cognitive Behavioral Solution, an ideal client recommendation.

Winner--American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award

New to This Edition
*Reflects more than 15 years of major advances in clinical practice, theory, and research.
*Chapters on specific OCD subtypes: contamination, doubt and repeated checking, repugnant obsessions, and symmetry/order.
*Heightened clinical utility--includes more case vignettes and step-by-step procedures.
*Describes important refinements to exposure and response prevention, based on inhibitory learning.
*Reproducible materials now available online.

See also the ideal client recommendation, Getting Over OCD, Second Edition: A 10-Step Workbook for Taking Back Your Life, by Jonathan S. Abramowitz.

Get unstuck from paralyzing doubt and indecision with this evidence-based workbook--from anxiety and OCD expert David A. Clark.

Do you have trouble making decisions? Does the unknown fill you with existential dread? Do you struggle with an intense fear of commitment that sabotages your personal relationships? Everyone has their doubts now and then, but extreme doubt--the kind that leaves you paralyzed and unable to live your life--can cause immense emotional distress, and even lead to (or worsen) several mental health conditions, such as anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). So, how can you get unstuck from doubt, trust yourself, and start living the life you were meant to live?

This evidence-based workbook offers essential skills grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you overcome toxic doubt, make peace with uncertainty, and improve your life. You'll learn the difference between healthy and unhealthy doubt, how to break free from the indecision trap, and how to overcome fear of commitment, crisis of belief, and extreme risk-aversion. You'll also find skills to help you move beyond self-critical thoughts, unrealistic expectations, and unhealthy ways of coping.

With this powerful workbook, you will:

• Understand and dismantle doubt
• Learn to live with uncertainty
• Build self-trust and act decisively
• Get unstuck and move forward

Doubt can be healthy--it protects you from false beliefs, baseless claims, and overconfidence. But if doubt is standing in the way of reaching your goals or living your life, it's time to make a change. This step-by-step workbook can help you get started today.