Dr Joseph S Weiss 
Dying of Embarrassment Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. If you buy through the link below, it costs you nothing extra and helps support this site. The title captures how social anxiety can feel, like embarrassment might actually do you in. Barbara Markway and her co-authors take that fear seriously and … Read more
Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. If you buy through the link below, it costs you nothing extra and helps support this site. The instinct during a panic attack is to brace, resist, and fight the feeling off. Reid Wilson makes the case that the fighting is the problem, and … Read more
Some anxiety books read like a textbook. This one reads like a coach in your corner.
Test anxiety can turn a capable student into someone who dreads the exam room. Ben Bernstein wrote this book to change that story, and he packs it with tools a student can actually use
OCD can feel like your brain has jammed on a single channel and won’t let you change it. Jeffrey Schwartz named that experience “brain lock,” and he offers a way to loosen it.
When anxiety has been running the show, the first goal is simple. Get a tool you can use right now
If you’ve ever had a sudden, unbidden thought pop into your head — something disturbing, violent, sexual, or just deeply out of character — you know how unsettling that experience can be.
There’s a piece of advice that sounds completely reasonable on the surface: if a thought is bothering you, just stop thinking it. Push it out. Focus on something else. Distract yourself. And yet, if you have OCD, you’ve probably discovered the hard way that this strategy not only doesn’t work — it actually makes things significantly worse. Here’s why.
Can any skilled therapist help with OCD? Or does it make a genuine difference to work with someone who specializes in it? The answer matters more than you might expect.
OCD and anxiety get talked about together so often that many people assume they’re more or less the same thing — or that OCD is simply a more intense version of everyday worry. The two do overlap in important ways, but they’re also meaningfully different. And that distinction matters quite a bit when it comes to finding the right kind of help.