About the book
Edward M. Hallowell examines worry, which he treats as the most common and debilitating emotional state, separating the healthy kind that can help people work efficiently, anticipate danger and learn from mistakes from toxic worry that spoils pleasure and undermines achievement. He covers the types of worry and their underlying causes, using case histories and anecdotes on worry in relationships, at work and in children, and on its links to obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, generalized anxiety disorder and social phobia. A section called Remedies That Work explains how to evaluate, control and manage worry with or without medication, arguing that even born worriers can learn to channel it in healthy ways.
James Altucher recommended it among five books for self-improvement, noting that ordinary worry helps him meet deadlines and care about people, while the toxic kind spins out of control and keeps people awake at 3am.
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James Altucher (Entrepreneur, investor)
"Everyone worries. 20 million people in the US suffer from some sort of untreated clinical anxiety disorder.
Worry is ok. It helps me make deadlines, care about people, care about improving myself.
But “toxic worry” is when things spin out of control. When you wake up at 3am and can’t get that thought out of your head: why did they do that? How will I live? Does she/he love me? And on and on and on and on.
The book, “Worry” helped me."
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