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Tables of Contents for How to Control Your Anxiety Before It Controls You
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Acknowledgements
ix
Why I Am Convinced That You Can Control Your Anxiety Before It Controls You
1
12
What Anxiety Is and How It Often Controls You
13
10
Luckily, Most of Your Anxiety Is Self-Created and Can Be Uncreated
23
9
Irrational Beliefs That Make You Anxious
32
14
Disputing Your Anxiety-Creating Irrational Beliefs
46
15
Using Rational Coping Self-Statements
61
5
Using Positive Visualization and Modeling
66
3
Using Cost-Benefit Analysis to Control Your Anxiety
69
3
Using Educational Methods to Control Your Anxiety
72
3
Using Relaxation and Cognitive Distraction Methods
75
2
Using Reframing Methods
77
3
Using Problem-Solving Methods to Control Your Anxiety
80
3
Using Unconditional Self-Acceptance (USA)
83
11
Using Unconditional Acceptance of Others to Control Your Anxiety
94
13
Using Rational Emotive Imagery
107
5
Using Shame-Attacking Exercises to Control Your Anxiety
112
10
Some Forceful and Dramatic Methods of Controlling Your Anxiety
122
11
Firmly Convincing Yourself of Your Rational and Self-Helping Beliefs
133
6
Using a Sense of Humor to Control Your Anxiety
139
10
Using Exposure and Behavioral Desensitization
149
10
Tolerating and Staying in Anxiety-Provoking Situations
159
5
Using Reinforcement Methods to Control Your Anxiety
164
6
Using Penalties to Control Your Anxiety
170
3
Using the Method of Fixed Role-playing to Control Your Anxiety
173
4
What About Biology and the Use of Medications?
177
4
A Remarkably Efficient Way to Control Your Anxiety Before It Controls You
181
8
104 Rational Maxims to Control My Anxious Thinking
189
17
62 Rational Maxims to Control My Anxious Feelings and My Bodily Reactions to Anxiety
206
11
65 Rational Maxims to Help Me Act Against My Discomfort Anxiety and My Irrational Fears
217
9
Selected References
226
11
Index
237