Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry Paperback – January 2, 2015

This book was absolutely awesome. It truly helped me get to the bottom of my anxiety. For the first time, I felt like I really understood what anxiety is, where it comes from, and why it shows up the way it does. Examples in the book are great and everything is easy to understand.I feel less overwhelmed and I loved reading it!!

This book was exactly what I didn’t know I needed. It explained anxiety in such a clear, almost comforting way—like walking into a messy room and suddenly knowing where everything goes. The breakdown between the emotional “fear center” and the logical “overthinking part” of the brain made so much sense, and once I saw how they both play a role, I felt less stuck. The science stuff didn’t go over my head at all, and the techniques actually feel doable, not just theory. I’ve started catching myself mid-spiral and being like, “Ah, this is cortex nonsense,” and it weirdly helps. Definitely one of the most useful, brain-calming things I’ve read in a long time.Highly recommended.

The book arrived in absolutely pristine condition! Honestly, just like new! The cover and pages were flawless, with no marks, bends, or wear at all. I was very impressed with the care taken in packaging and shipping. Exceeded my expectations and I couldn’t be happier with this purchase. Highly recommend!

The media could not be loaded. Great book and I am just in the first chapter. I hope to finish it by tommorow. I have had anxiety most of my life and never realized that is what it was- and that was causing a OCD. I now understand the source. I hope this book will help me overcome. I took a star away because of the binding. A clump of pages came out. Granted, I folded the book over, but I do that with all my books and this has never happened. The book is good otherwise.

Though somewhat repetitive, this book is easy to read and clearly explains the basic neurobiology of fear, worry, anxiety, panic, and related conditions such as PTSD and OCD. Drawing on research by Joseph Ledoux and others, the book highlights the central role of the amygdala (the brain's primitive and subconscious 'fear center'), which receives surprisingly scant attention in many other books on this topic. In my opinion, understanding the underlying biology is very helpful, if not essential.The book also provides helpful evidence-based guidance on techniques to prevent or reduce the intensity of anxiety and related conditions. The key techniques are:- Get good sleep, aerobically exercise daily, and eat a healthy diet.- Breathe from the diaphragm/belly, which apparently activates the parasympathetic nervous system and thus counters activation of the sympathetic nervous system resulting from fear.- Remind yourself that thoughts and images are not reality and may be mistaken.- Disrupt problematic thoughts and images via distractions, play, music, and positive thoughts and images.- Mindfully 'defuse' from problematic thoughts, images, and sensations, and instead just 'be' in the present moment, calmly observing all that is happening without any need to interpret or respond in any way.- Meditate, including mindful meditation.- Deliberately and repeatedly expose yourself to the situations which generate unwarranted fear, in order to rewire the amygdala to no longer subconsciously associate those situations with fear. This can be an uncomfortable experience, but accept the discomfort and know that it will pass, and absolutely do not flee from the situations, because doing so will strengthen the fear.I highly recommend this book to anyone dealing with excessive worry, fear, anxiety, and related conditions.

There are books that go into much more detail on specific strategies for dealing with anxiety and panic attacks or avoiding them altogether. They would be a great supplement to this book. What this book does is lay out clearly, in layperson terms, the neuroscience behind anxiety and panic attacks. Once you understand better what's happening biologically, you can find better strategies for dealing with it. They give you a good place to start by covering the basics of exercise, sleep, mindfulness, and CBT strategies, and they include in the resources section other books that go deeper into those topics which is very helpful. This book helped give me perspective and some goals, and I thought it was pretty unique. I cannot recommend enough.

Can't recommend this book enough. It helped me understand the different mechanisms around anxiety and different tools that are scientifically proven to cope with it.

Ok but not what I expected. Too boring to listen to.