One Less Thing to Worry About: Uncommon Wisdom for Coping with Common Anxieties

When it comes to having anxiety women outnumber men two to one. Fluctuations in levels of estrogen and other hormones as well as physiological factors unique to women seem to cause us not only to experience anxiety differently at different times in our lives but also to worry about different things in different ways. Now a pioneer in the field presents a new perspective on the way women worry showing that anxiety isn’t something that just happens to us but rather something that involves action and reaction–something with which we have a relationship–and that we can learn to manage.Anxiety can be friend or foe: it can keep us out of trouble or keep us chronically on edge. Normal healthy worry reminds us to pay our taxes see a doctor when we’re feeling sick and lock the doors at night. But when worry escalates into chronic anxiety keeping us from fully living our lives it’s time to assess the kind of relationship we have with our anxiety and take action to change it. In this practical and lively guide Jerilyn Ross presents stories of women who did just that and introduces the Ross Prescription–a set of innovative tools and techniques that you can use to do it too. It includes• questionnaires to help you determine whether what you’re experiencing is normal everyday worry or if it is perhaps symptomatic of an anxiety disorder• strategies for identifying how you relate to your anxiety: Do you act impulsively to ease it? Adhere to regimens of obsessive behavior to control it? Or avoid and run away from it?• tips for locating your position on the anxiety spectrum: Is your worry healthy and helpful or is it toxic? • cutting-edge research into the ways hormones affect when and how a woman experiences and deals with anxiety• the Eight Points a set of reliable techniques to help you control anxiety worry and stress in the moment and liberate you from their gripWith this book in hand and the Ross Prescription in mind you will learn to identify modify and redefine your relationship with worry and anxiety and master simple effective ways to regain control of your life.

Hardcover: 288 pages

Publisher: Ballantine Books; 1 edition (April 14 2009)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0345503066

ISBN-13: 978-0345503060

Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1 x 8.6 inches

Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces