The Panic Attack Recovery Book - by Shirley Swede & Seymour Jaffe (Paperback)

About the Book

Newly revised and updated, this book offers drug-free, seven-step techniques to reduce anxiety and panic attacks. The authors focus on behavioral techniques, fitness and nutrition plans, and encouraging true stories.

Book Synopsis

Now sufferers can attack panic--before it attacks them. This seven-step, drug-free program--written jointly by a physician and a recovered sufferer--explains what goes on in the body when panic disorder strikes, and how it can be controlled. With behavioral techniques, fitness and nutrition plans, and inspiring, encouraging true stories, this book brings new hope to people with panic disorder, agoraphobia, and other anxiety-related conditions.

From the Back Cover

Rapid heartbeat. Trembling. Sudden weakness. The feeling that you're going crazy. Panic attacks often seem to come out of the blue -- and sadly, many people endure them for years without realizing that they can get help.

This seven-step, drug-free program -- written jointly by a physician and a recovered sufferer -- gives clear explanations of what's going on in your mind and body when panic disorder strikes, as well as step-by-step techniques, nutrition and fitness plans, and inspiring true stories for support and encouragement. Newly revised and updated, it offers new hope for people with panic disorder, agoraphobia, and other anxiety-related conditions. This book can help you feel calmer and more in control, take decisive action to solve the problem...and, often within just six to eight weeks, discover a sense of freedom you've never dreamed possible.

Review Quotes

"Takes the panicker out of narrow fixation and into a broader sense of life's possibilities".

-- Boston Globe