Your Worry Makes Sense - by Brunet (Paperback)

About the Book

Your Worry Makes Sense explores why anxiety and burnout are not only common but also logical. Offering practical strategies to manage and break harmful cycles and regain control of your mental health. Accompanied by witty illustrations and metaphors.

Book Synopsis

How do you make sense of worry?

On the surface, anxiety and panic seem to make no sense at all. But if you dig a little deeper, you can understand why we need some anxiety to survive and how it can escalate to become a problem. And once you learn that it really does make sense, you can learn how to overcome it!

Written by GP Dr Martin Brunet, who has over 30 years of professional experience and is well known online for his popular mental health videos, Your Worry Makes Sense explores the logical basis for the common experiences of both anxiety and burnout.

Accompanied by Hannah Robinson's witty illustrations, Dr Brunet uses powerful visual metaphors that help you unpack your anxiety, you'll discover...

- Why anxiety can spiral out of control
- Practical strategies to help you manage it
- How to navigate and understand your triggers
- How to identify and manage burnout, a common cause of both anxiety and depression
- How you can begin to break harmful cycles and implement effective techniques to regain control of your mental health
- How your breathing pattern can become disordered when you are anxious, and what to do about it
- How to fix common sleep problems
- The role of both talking therapy and medication in managing anxiety

Review Quotes

'Your Worry Makes Sense' is an important and very valuable addition to this area of self-help literature. I encourage anyone suffering from disabling anxiety, or anyone caring for or about someone who does, to read it. Sufferers from these conditions tend to be ashamed and this shame prevents them from seeking help or dealing effectively with their problems. Dr Brunet's book speaks directly to them, encouraging them to recognise that they are not foolish, that their condition is real and debilitating, but that it can be overcome.--Dr Tim Cantopher, Psychiatrist, and author of Depressive Illness: The Curse of the Strong

An important book for anyone who has faced anxiety whether it be a brief moment of social nervousness or a sustained period of paralysing fear. For those of us who feel ashamed of our worries and anxieties this book lets us off the hook and helps us understand our feelings better.--Caroline Quentin

This book is a lifeline for anyone struggling with anxiety or burnout. It's filled with wisdom, practical tools and a refreshing perspective that will inspire you to take back control of your mental and emotional health.--Dr Sarah Nicholls, NHS Doctor and Burnout Coach

Dr. Martin has generously poured his many years of expertise into this brilliantly insightful and practical book, with each page teaching me more about myself than I've learned in years.--Ben West, Mental Health Campaigner

About the Author

Dr Martin Brunet is a GP and GP Trainer based in Guildford, UK. He has over 23 years of professional experience and is well known for his viral video content that makes mental health concepts accessible to everyone. You can find him on Instagram and TikTok at @doc_martin_gp. As well as his interest in mental health, he teaches regularly on communication within the GP consultation and developed a new model for the consultation, published as The GP Consultation Reimagined (Scion Publishing Ltd, 2020).

Hannah Robinson is an illustrator and cartoonist from London. She has illustrated for The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Time and more.