Front Cover -- The Authors -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword From Adam -- Introduction: -- PART I ADAM'S STORY -- Chapter 1: Admission -- Chapter 2: Beginnings -- Chapter 3: Air Crash -- Chapter 4: The Keys to My Anxiety -- Chapter 5: Breaking Down and Telling All -- Chapter 6: "Just Fear" -- Chapter 7: The Point of No Return? -- Chapter 8: The End of the Beginning -- PART II Pullingthetrigger™ -- Section 1: Accept -- Section 2: Embrace -- Section 3: Control -- Section 4: Depression and Panic Attacks-The By-Products of Anxiety -- Section 5: Fitness and Diet
Section 6: Family and Friends -- Section 7: Medication -- Section 8: Life After Anxiety: Recovery and the Place Beyond -- Conclusions -- Afterword: Three Years Later -- Bibliography
Summary
Being in control of your mental health and understanding your own mental health wellbeing just makes everything in life better - it's that simple. From the heart and soul of Adam Shaw, who battled OCD for decades, and the expert insight of his psychologist, Lauren Callaghan, comes the definitive recovery guide for OCD, anxiety, and related depression. This unique self-help book brings you advice and recovery tools from the separate perspectives of a leading psychologist and her patient, and gives an insight into mental health recovery and CBT techniques that you can really relate to. This new edition contains a bonus chapter on how Adam has used this approach to maintain his recovery and wellness several years on
