How To Control Your Anxiety Before It Controls You

Albert Ellis has written many books to help people solve their personality problems without extensive and expensive professional therapy, though he does stress that the reader may need other help if their problems seems overwhelming. He explains how we create our own anxieties from our irrational beliefs, and how to 'talk yourself round' and escape the misery of self-defeating talk. He uses plenty of examples taken from his professional experience, and provides key thoughts to help you analyse exactly what you are doing to yourself and how to stop doing it. I thoroughly recommend this book, and the Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy concept as being a system which you can, with a certain amount of willpower, apply to yourself.

I have read other Albert Ellis books and there are some things that are the same but there are different self talk suggestions for anxiety. The book is set up so that the important ideas and suggestions are easy to find they are numbered and listed together.I have found that his books are very helpful he speaks of how a person thinks when they make themselves anxious he lays out what you are saying to yourself and what thoughts you need to change to be less anxious. Most other books I have read have case histories where people who used the author's formula and got better, there are some examples of that in this book but Dr. Ellis isn't offering pie in the sky answers he is very practical in his expectations of success.I used Dr. Ellis' books in conjunction with therapy and found it to be very helpful to change how I see life and I think that is why I am having less problems with depression these days.

The principles and techniques in this book can be applied to numerous anxiety provoking situations a person believes are created. His principles and techniques have been used since the 70s and called different names by other psychs. This book was extremely useful. You must practice, apply, and challenge your beliefs.I read the negative reviews and usually understand them, but not with this book.

I do so love the wealth of information I get from Dr. Ellis' books. However, an entertaining writer he is not. The information in this book is very good but often presented with a very dry delivery and is occasionally repetitive. This would not be a book I simply throw at my clients and ask them to read. They would be asleep in the first 5 pages.So in summary, I think the content and the purpose of the book is wonderful. Just a poor presentation.

I have app that downloaded audio books, and I listen to this book few months ago. I loved it, so I decided to read it myself.

The main point of this book is how centered around Dr.Ellis theme that it is your thoughts that direct your feelings and actions and not the event itself. I enjoyed mostly how practical it js .

i bought it for someone, hope it will be helpfull

Amazing life changing book. Albert Ellis is a genius.

ABC model and the section on disputing the Irrational Beliefs was helpful for me; however it is not so easy to put it in practise as it sounds in the book.

Excellent book , very interesting

Brilliant

Great book as always from Ellis. Good condition- as described.

It's about apprehension NOT anxiety disorder.Not really wanting to talk to a crowd (public speaking),is nothing compared to lying in bed withall the worst case thoughts of everythinggoing thru your head non-stop 24/7.I'd appreciate readings on this subject that are a little more recent.