A review by clormack
Hope and Help for Your Nerves: End Anxiety Now by Claire Weekes
4.0
“The great majority of my nervously ill patients have been made ill and kept ill because of the way they feel; because of fear of what they think may happen next.”
A near-perfect gem in the sphere of anxiety resources. It was first published in 1969 so some content and beliefs are outdated but the core messaging is crystal clear, which is all you can really ask for in the overpopulated and overcomplicated landscape of self-help books.
All this book asks you to do in periods of “nervous illness” / “sensitised nerves” is to face your anxiety, accept it, float through the feeling and let time pass. Weekes claims that it’s the resistance and fear attached to certain thoughts, sensations and situations that sets you off on a never ending cycle of anxiety, which only further sensitises your nerves and makes it far easier to trigger them.
A near-perfect gem in the sphere of anxiety resources. It was first published in 1969 so some content and beliefs are outdated but the core messaging is crystal clear, which is all you can really ask for in the overpopulated and overcomplicated landscape of self-help books.
All this book asks you to do in periods of “nervous illness” / “sensitised nerves” is to face your anxiety, accept it, float through the feeling and let time pass. Weekes claims that it’s the resistance and fear attached to certain thoughts, sensations and situations that sets you off on a never ending cycle of anxiety, which only further sensitises your nerves and makes it far easier to trigger them.