Good advice for people dealing with obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety, or just overthinking on dealing with worries.

I am a serial worrier, and it takes over my life. This book gives you good insight on the mind of a worrier and useful information on how to reclaim your identity as some thing, other than a worrier.

I hoped this would give some tips on how to handle generalised anxiety and found the first half of the book good, very well-structured and informative. it could help with recognizing symptoms and working against them.

I accessed a digital review copy of this book from the publisher.
This book covers the elements of extreme worrying. There are some good points and some bad ones. The beginning, which describes why a person worries, is good and helpful. This helps with recognizing symptoms and working against them. The second half, with some of its suggestions on how to stop, is not good. While reminding yourself that others have things worse can help bring you out of worry, everyone experiences things differently.
This is useful for the beginning, but it is best to read the second half with a more skeptical view.

I went into this book hoping for some coping strategies and tools to help deal with the crippling, pervasive anxiety that I deal with - and that's exactly what I got. This book should be seen as a toolkit that you can flip through and cherrypick what works for you. There are exercises and explanations. If you find an exercise doesn't work, let's try another. It was like reading from some of my therapy sessions in spots. Definitely valuable if you go in with the proper expectations.

The act of worrying affects so many people today. This book provides helpful tips and strategies on how to recognize excessive worrying and how to mitigate these thoughts. The first part of the book focuses on the explanation of worrying and where it comes from. The second part of the book targets why you worry and how to stop worrying. Some of the tips provided included: improving your mood, incorporating mindfulness exercises, accepting your anxiety, understanding that your anxiety cannot hurt you. There are handouts and worksheets provided in the book that are quite helpful in trying to improve your worrying habit. This book was easy to understand, and provided strategies in a way that they can be easily implemented. Thank you the publisher and NetGalley for the advance review copy of the book in exchange for my honest review.

First, we'd like to thank NetGalley and New Harbinger Publications for the opportunity to read this book in advance of its release date. Being minorities in STEM and academic settings, we both suffer from a great deal of anxiety which compelled us to read this book. We rarely read self-help books, so we don't have any measures to hold this read up against, however, we found this book to be a surprisingly easy and engaging read, considering the detailed and expert point of view from which it was being presented. Dr. Davey has broken down the concept of worrying into the why, the impacts, and the solution. Each chapter comes along with, examples, exercises and tips that are helpful and practical for the worrying mind. The book has also been written in a post-pandemic perspective, which we really appreciated. We would definitely recommend this book to those looking for a supplement to help with managing their worries. However, we urge anyone dealing with anxiety and compulsive worrying to seek help from a health professional first.

I don’t read much self help usually but I suffer from generalized anxiety disorder so when I saw this title up for download on Netgalley I had to pick it up to see what it was all about. The basics of this book is explaining what worrying is, why people might worry and what might lead them to catastrophic worry, the difference between anxiety and worry, and different things that a person can do to mitigate their catastrophic worry habits. Each chapter has an introduction and conclusion section and they all have workbook sections so you can practice whatever technique is being taught in any given chapter.

I really liked the first part of this book. The explanations of worry, what might lead a person to worry were well written and interesting. I liked the summaries at the end of the chapter. And some of the workbook sections seem to be genuinely helpful. My interest ironically went rapidly downhill once it got to the mitigation part. A shocking amount of the ways to help with chronic worry involve toxic positivity and I’m just not here for it. Telling someone to remind them selves that other people have things worse, things will eventually get better, and whatever their worrying about will be fine in the end sound good at first but they aren’t going to actually help anyone. I really wish the book had talked more about worry mitigation in terms of GAD as people with that are going to need this advice way more than the average person.

Overall while I do think some of the exercises can be helpful I’m not sure if I recommend the book. Very slight recommendation if the later parts with toxic positivity don’t bother you too much but if it does I would avoid this.