Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness
 | Three Rivers Press, 1999, Paperback Customer Rating: 215 reviews Recommend |
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- ISBN13: 9780812929980
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
BRAIN PRESCRIPTIONS THAT REALLY WORK
In this breakthrough bestseller, you'll see scientific evidence that your anxiety, depression, anger, obsessiveness, or impulsiveness could be related to how specific structures in your brain work. You're not stuck with the brain you're born with. Here are just a few of neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen's surprising — and effective — "brain prescriptions" that can help heal your brain and change your life:
To Quell Anxiety and Panic:
¸ Use simple breathing techniques to immediately calm inner turmoil
To Fight Depression:
¸ Learn how to kill ANTs (automatic negative thoughts)
To Curb Anger:
¸ Follow the Amen anti-anger diet and learn the nutrients that calm rage
To Conquer Impulsiveness and Learn to Focus:
¸ Develop total focus with the "One-Page Miracle"
To Stop Obsessive Worrying:
¸ Follow the "get unstuck" writing exercise and learn other problem-solving exercises
In this age of do-it-yourself health care (heck, if the doctor only sees you for 10 minutes each visit, what other options are there?), Change Your Brain, Change Your Life fits in perfectly. Filled with "brain prescriptions" (among them cognitive exercises and nutritional advice) that are geared toward readers who've experienced anxiety, depression, impulsiveness, excessive anger or worry, and obsessive behavior, Change Your Brain, Change Your Life milks the mind-body connection for all it's worth.
Written by a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who has also authored a book on attention deficit disorder, Change Your Brain contains dozens of brain scans of patients with various neurological problems, from caffeine, nicotine, and heroin addiction to manic-depression to epilepsy. These scans, often showing large gaps in neurological activity or areas of extreme overactivity, are downright frightening to look at, and Dr. Amen should know better than to resort to such scare tactics. But he should also be commended for advocating natural remedies, including deep breathing, guided imagery, meditation, self-hypnosis, and biofeedback for treating disorders that are so frequently dealt with by prescription only.
Title: Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness
Sales Rank: 36 in Books
Author: Daniel G. Amen
Publisher: Three Rivers Press, Reprint edition, 1999-12-31, Paperback, 352 pages, ISBN: 0812929985
Package Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches, 0.65 pounds
- Read the book in the library
- I watched a lecture by Dr. Amen on my local public television station. He was funny and he seemed to make a lot of sense. His books were included as "pledge gifts" I enjoyed his "100 ways to lose your blubber". The fact that he was on PBS lent him credibility. I went to his website and took a "free" online test and was quickly disillusioned when I was… More reviews
- Brainy read!
- Change Your Brain, Change Your Life is a great book, enabling me to think about how the brain works. Of course, in the past, anytime somebody causes trouble for some reason, I've always said, "It's the chemicals in the brain." What I meant by that is maybe this person was hit in the head years before or was exposed to drugs or something toxic… More reviews
- Bought this as a gift
- Bought this as a gift for a friend. She liked it! Everything was good. … More reviews
- brain in the works
- I haven't read the entire book yet, but this is the kind that you don't really have to sinc it covers several distinct issues. It's more of a reference book in that you can just go to specific chapters to get the info you need. A great tool so far and I got it to help with not only ADHD but with a fear of speaking in front… More reviews
- Reader
- This book is for anyone who is curious about why they behave the way they do or has an interest in overcoming some bad habits or "personality" problems. The author cautions the reader about self-diagnosing but rather suggests that certain patterns of behavior or problems may be caused by physiological abnormalities that are a part of us. I is not enough to will yourself to overcome them.… More reviews
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