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You wish you didn’t spend as much time worrying as you do, but you just can’t seem to help it. Worrying feels like second nature. It’s what helps you solve your problems and prevents you from making mistakes. It’s what motivates you to be prepared—if you didn’t worry, things might get out of hand. Worry protects you, prepares you, and keeps you safe.
Is it working? Or is it making you tense, tired, anxious, uncertain—and more worried?
For more than twenty-five years, Dr. Robert L. Leahy has successfully helped thousands of people defeat the worry that is holding them back. The Worry Cure is his new, comprehensive approach to help you identify, challenge, and overcome all types of worry, using the most recent research and his more than two decades of experience in treating patients.
This empowering seven-step program, including practical, easy-to-follow advice and techniques, will help you:
• Determine your “worry profile” and change your patterns of worry
• Identify productive and unproductive worry
• Take control of time and eliminate the sense of urgency that keeps you anxious
• Focus on new opportunities—not on your fear of failure
• Embrace uncertainty instead of searching for perfect solutions
• Stop the most common safety behaviors that you think make things better—but actually make things worse
Designed to address general worries as well as the unique issues surrounding some of the most common areas of worry—relationships, health, money, work, and the need for approval—The Worry Cure is for everyone, from the chronic worrier to the occasional ruminator. It’s time to stop thinking you’re “just a worrier” who can’t change and start using the groundbreaking methods in The Worry Cure to achieve the healthier, more successful life you deserve.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Great philosophy. If you 'worry', this will really help.  2008-06-24
There are some simple things in the course of life that change the way you view things. They are often referred to as an 'epiphany'. I would regard this book as providing me with one that will help me for years to come.
There are parts of this book that are a cure in themselves "Productive versus unproductive worry" for example. Such a concise philosophy, beautiful in its simplicity. This alone makes this book priceless to myself.
However, the style Mr Leahy writes in, the non-patronising tone, the clarity of thought and logic make this book something profound.
I am 35 years old and have 'ramped up' my worrying over the last 3 years. This 'habit' began with a very stressful job where I struggled to keep perspective. Worry become the norm. And it is a norm that is destructive, energy sapping and ultimately incredibly dangerous.
I laughed out loud during the first chapter as I recognized aspects of myself in what he was writing of. It was fantastic to see it in writing and understand that I was not alone. There were numerous times in the introduction alone that I recognized myself.
Needless to say, he elaborates on his ideas brilliantly. He builds his concepts with honesty and understanding of those he is writing for. Utlimately the effect, in my opinion at least, is profound.
I would like to thank Dr Leahy for writing this great bit of logic. I feel like a different person and am already catching those 'unproductive thoughts' to tackle at either a better time, or for that matter, not at all.
Work through this book if 'worry' is your 'worry' (sorry, didn't quite know how to term this differently!). Dwell on the points. Recongnize yourself. Take those nuggets of wisdom and run with them.
If you are like me, you will not regret it.
An easy 5 stars.
Complete coverage  2007-12-14
Very well written with full coverage on the subject. I just wish it was condensed more as it is a lot to read on one subject that could easily be edited down.
The Worry Cure: A Guide for Living instead of Worrying 2007-10-27
Dr. Robert Leahy's most recent book, The Worry Cure, is not just a timely publication that teaches individuals from all paths of life how to reduce the often crippling effects of pathological anxiety. It is also a well-needed and vital manual for coping with many of the uncertainties that we face in our complex and uncertain lives. Written in a down to earth, practical style, The Worry Cure is based on the very best that cutting edge empirical science has to teach us about the mind-body-spirit connections in the psychology of anxiety. It also teaches the various methods that people can use to place anxiety in the background and bring inner peace and joy to the foreground every day. What is particularly helpful about this publication is that Dr. Leahy not only informs the reader about techniques and skills that can be used to cope with anxiety, but he explains how anxiety works, and how to balance one's life so that anxiety is put into its proper perspective. Not only have I enthusiastically recommended it to all of my clients, but I find myself going back to it time and again for periodic refreshers.
Dr. Leahy's special gift is that he does not espouse his ideas in a preachy or dogmatic manner. Rather, he has integrated the very best that the cognitive-behavioral therapy revolution has to offer with other psychological theories and understandings that help people to make sense of their suffering in very humanistic and realistic ways. Consequently, he has crafted a manual that is deceptive in its practicality for the average person, yet it is grounded in some of the most reliable and valid findings that psychological science has to offer at this time.
The Worry Cure is such an easy read, the consumer should be cautioned to slow down and carefully absorb the wisdom in each page, despite being tempted to fly through it from cover to cover like a skier on a powdery downhill slope. It is not a book that is to be read and put back on a shelf or in a library. Instead, The Worry Cure is a book whose ideas must be read, re-read, pondered, savored, carefully digested, absorbed, and applied through daily practice, over and over, in order to make real changes in one's daily life. With that perspective, The Worry Cure is such an important book, it might be considered to be an essential manual for living in modern times from which everyone could profit, whether or not they are suffering from difficulties associated with anxiety.
Despite its appearance as a popular self-help book, The Worry Cure, is also a comprehensive treatment manual that mental health professionals will find quite helpful to use with their clients. As a core faculty member in the doctoral program in clinical psychology at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, we utilize several of Dr. Leahy's scholarly books, including Treatment Plans and Interventions for Depression and Anxiety Disorders, Cognitive Therapy Techniques: A Practitioner's Guide, and Overcoming Resistance in Cognitive Therapy in our practicum seminar courses as an important component in our students' clinical training. I am certain that The Worry Cure will take its rightful place alongside other classic self-help books, as well as treatment manuals that both early-career clinicians and experienced mental health providers will come to rely on in their clinical practice as one of their most valued tools of the trade. It is truly a classic!
Bruce S. Zahn, Ed.D., ABPP
Board Certified in Clinical Psychology
Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Philadelphia, PA
THE CLINICAL PYSCHOLOGIST praises The Worry Cure 2007-09-15
Worry is not only ubiquitous to the anxiety
disorders, but brief, less severe manifestations
of this cognitive phenomena are pervasive throughout
the general population. Who amongst us has not
worried at one time or another? Moreover the deleterious
effects of chronic and severe worry are not confined
to a specific disorder like generalized anxiety
disorder but instead are a major symptom feature of
some of the most common mental health problems in
our society such as major depression, social phobia,
and substance abuse. In the daily routine of a clinical
practice, therapists repeatedly face patients who
feel defeated by a crippling state of worry. And yet,
it is surprising that worry was practically ignored by
clinical researchers until the last 10-15 years. Until
recently the empirical literature had little to offer the
treatment of worry and even less was available for
the general public in the form of scientifically based
self-help books.
All that has changed with the publication
of Robert Leahy's book entitled "The Worry Cure".
Written in a systematic, instructive, and well-illustrated
manner, Dr. Leahy explains the nature, etiology,
persistence and treatment of pathological worry
in a style that is readily comprehensible to the general
public. Although the book is rooted in a cognitive
behavioral perspective, it is not dogmatic in its theoretical
orientation. Findings from mindfulness cognitive
therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy,
and emotion-focused therapy are discussed in terms
of their relevance for the treatment of chronic worry.
Throughout the book Dr. Leahy remains true to the
empirical traditional by ensuring that his insights into
the nature of worry and its alleviation are anchored in
the latest empirical research on worry. When recommending
this book for their patients, clinicians can
be confident that the guidance offered in its pages is
based on the latest findings in the research literature.
illustrations.
The chapters are full of rating forms and
other clinical aids to help individuals implement
the recommended changes in their thinking and
behavior. What is particularly innovative in these
chapters is the focus on generic interventions
that can be adapted to any type of worry content.
Chapters 11 through 15 deal with worry associated
with specific issues such as concern about negative
evaluation and acceptance of others, abandonment
and rejection, health, finances and work or achievement.
These chapters deal with topics so common
in clinical practice that it is difficult to think of
patient who would not benefit from reading at least
selected chapters.
In many respects the title of this book, The
Worry Cure, is a little misleading. Although this
definitely a self-help book on worry, it's contribution
is so much greater. Even if you did not suffer
with worry, there is much to be gained by reading
The Worry Cure. For example the chapter on dealing
with failure is probably the best clinical advice we
have seen on the topic. As well the chapter on financial
worries provides creative insights into a pervasive
problem in our society that rarely receives
the attention of clinical writers. In short, The Worry
Cure is an authoritative, clinically rich, and practical
handbook for dealing with worry in all of its
various manifestations. The therapist will find this
a valuable bibliotherapy tool when treating anxiety
and depression. It is also an indispensable source
of psychological knowledge on worry and its treatment
for all mental health practitioners. It should
be required reading for any student of psychotherapy.
If I could choose only 10 clinical texts for my
library, The Worry Cure would be one of them!.
The Clinical Psychologist
Division 12 American Psychological Association
Fall 2007
VOL 60 - No 3 - FALL 2007 17
Unique and usful only if you dare to use it 2007-07-08
Great and useful book overall. It has some interesting and unique perspectives on dealing with the toxic worry (generalized anxiety).
Dr. Leahy, the worry specialist, who is a well-respected writer of many professional books, fills pages with numerous ways to attack this stubborn anxiety from many disciplines (philosophy, cognitive therapy, behavioral therapy and so on).
The information is very useful, especially, if you wish to move beyond just "basic" monitoring of your cognitive distortions, and address some "deeper level" issues such as core beliefs about yourself and the world, the meaning of a threat, uncertainty, and rumination.
As I read this book, I could not help thinking that someone who is chronically anxious for decades, and is seriously bogged down by procrastination and avoidance, will surely have difficulties facing up to own anxiety. The moment one starts, you will be faced with a monster. This anxiety protects itself violently and tries to survive by putting out many obstacles. So, I am saying the next sentence with great caution as I don't want to discourage anyone from this helpful book. However, I got a bit overwhelmed by this book's abundance of material and its deep daring level. If you dare to venture into this on your own, I wish you courage; however, I think this endevour is better suited for someone who has already started dealing with his/her anxieties and has achieved some degree of success, rather than a newbie. Maybe someone who has a support of a therapist and is super-motivated - although I don't know anyone like this. It helps to be very psychologically-minded and curious.
Having said this, if self-help books is your drug of choice, please know the book's usefulness and its broad scope surpasses many other books on the subject, and could be of immense benefit to a sufferer.
If like me, you will find it all to be too much, please check out two great primers that are easier to do with "baby steps": Anxiety Workbook by Edmund Bourne, and the second, Mind over Mood, by Podesky. Once the system is in place, everyone would benefit from this book, which has lots to add to move you further to the worry cure (provided it exists:-)
Finally, what helped me enormously, is finding a true conginitive therapist who is supportive, and consistent. In my case, the constant worrying subsided enormously, in 6 months. This is from someone who tried for years, to do it on my own. Books such as this one, suddenly start making sense only after therapy. The way to find a therapist is through Aaron Beck (father of cognitive therapy) institute in PA.
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