Stop Worrying. Get Your Life Back on Track with CBT

The 2010 book Stop Worrying. Get Your Life Back on Track with CBT by Ad Kerkhof was reviewed in a recent issue of Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention.  According to the review, worrying is a widespread source of stress of everyday life in developed countries. Worry can disturb sleep and, through ongoing vegetative and endocrine arousal, contributes to various emotional disorders. Worrying is a basic process of depression and may thereby lead to suicide. This phenomenon surely motivated Ad Kerkhof and his coworkers to devise a new program to combat worrying on a do-it-yourself basis. The program outlined consists of a 4-week series of exercises detecting, identifying, monitoring, and counteracting the process of worrying, using clear guidelines and a simple manual to document feelings experienced daily as well as measures to be employed in order to get rid of—or at least to modify—cognitive elements of anxiety.

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[Evan Hanks]

Has anyone considered that there might be real reasons for worry and tension? That they might reflect neglected inner qualities clamoring for attention? That the psyche expresses itself symbolically has long been proven. Instead of trying so desperately to rid ourselves of our problems, it might behoove us to reflect on their purposes. By the way, very informative post on 4/13 as to why the public is so skeptical about psychology -- CBT may be one of the reasons.