Beating OCD and Anxiety: 75 Tried and Tested Strategies for Sufferers and their Supporters

Are you prone to over-checking? Do you annoy your family and friends by imagining the worst all the time? Does anxiety affect everything you do, from getting through the day to being able to make decisions, no matter how small? Has it affected or even destroyed friendships and relationships? Or maybe you know or live with someone with these issues, and feel unable to help them? Helena Tarrant gets it. She also understands why you may have struggled with text-heavy anxiety guides in the past. This book can help you to start a new fulfilling life, or help you provide invaluable support to someone you care about. The author has recovered from lifelong debilitating obsessive compulsive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. This book shares the 75 tried and tested techniques she used to do it, based largely but not entirely on the methods and concepts behind cognitive behavioural therapy. Written in accessible language, conveniently segmented and illustrated with over 100 original cartoons, the techniques are described clearly and concisely. Beating OCD and Anxiety knows you don't want to read pages of complex theory on a quest for the help you need. If you have an anxious friend, this is your road map of how to help them. If you suffer from anxiety yourself and have found that traditional text-based guides haven't helped, Helena will show you how to get your life back.