Women & Anxiety: A Step-by-Step Program for Managing Anxiety and Depression

Anxiety and depression are facts of life, but you don't have to live with them! Single parenthood. Marriage problems. AIDS. Sexual freedom. Divorce. Career demands. The glass ceiling. Run with the Wolves or play by The Rules. Pro-life. Choice. Alternative lifestyles. No wonder women are anxious and depressed. Never before have women been confronted with so many bewildering choices and so many incessant demands. How do women cope? How can they defeat self-defeating attitudes and actions? How can they conquer their fears, win the battle with anxiety and triumph over depression? Women & Anxiety, first published in 1979, is now completely revised and updated for the 1990s. Women & Anxiety offers readers a new, dynamic, and easy-to-use strategy for dealing with the problems of stress, anxiety, and depression. In an inspiring and practical style, noted psychiatrist Dr. Helen DeRosis will show women of today how to manage anxiety in an easy step-by-step program. With sensible suggestions and solutions, this book will show you how to turn anxiety into a positive force in your life and how to learn to channel it in healthy and constructive ways.

Women and Anxiety: A Step-by-Step Program for Managing Anxiety and Depression is a "self-help guide for recovery of your well-being," designed to empower you to take control "in a new, hopeful way, rather than with old, hurtful patterns." This book aims to help you understand the basis of your troublesome feelings and become less enraged, guilt ridden, and pessimistic by using the author's 20-step program.

Everyone suffers from anxiety, says author DeRosis, a psychiatrist specializing in women's mental health. It becomes a problem when it is excessive and causes suffering and/or incapacitation. DeRosis teaches you to see anxiety as a signal of inner conflict that you can resolve, and to harness your restless energy productively.

She examines anxiety's underlying emotions, such as anger, perfectionist expectations, marital dissatisfaction, and role or age transitions. The 20-step program helps you expose the conflicts that create anxiety, and then change features of your life. You deal with only one "trouble point" at a time, so that you can clarify and resolve an issue, make a change, and create a sense of accomplishment. Case studies illustrate how several women worked through these steps, so you can follow their examples. --Joan Price