Most people have more anxiety symptoms than they will admit.

Fortunately, most of the symptoms are transient; meaning,

they'll go away shortly, or when some circumstance changes.

For some, the symptoms linger, even after the event passes.

For some, the symptoms get stronger, or even if they have

some clear event that sets the symptoms in motion, the symptoms

are still too strong to handle.

Now we begin to think there is something else going on.

We start to ask questions that focus our attention on some the

symptoms of anxiety, which are:

Apprehension, tension, uneasiness, anticipation of danger, motor

tension, autonomic hyperactivity, fears, preoccupations,

repetitive thoughts Vigilance, scanning, avoidance of situations

or things, panic sensations, heart palpitations, sweaty palms,

rapid breathing, rigid or repetitive behaviors

Would you believe there are over thirty-three such symptoms?

The above is only a partial list. What most people need is a

comprehensive list of ALL the symptoms, then a systematic way

of asking the right questions. But it takes lots of years of

schooling to get this right so most people start thinking about

seeing a therapist. This is costly.

So, I wrote an ebook that does this for you.

Hello, I've been a psychologist in private practice for over

twenty years. I run into eight conditions every day, anxiety

being just one. People call or come in with their list of

symptoms, how often they have them, how intense are their

experiences, their histories of anxiety and/or depression,

substance use, alcohol use, recent stressors, relationship

problems that anxiety creates (and vice versa), loss of function

secondary to anxiety, and on and on.

In each session, I ask a well-honed set of clinical questions

that takes most of the hour, then have people rate their symptoms

in some key areas, then chart their responses on one of three

graphs. Right away they know if they have made the right choice

in coming to a therapist.

Most people need some guidance to make this decision, but some,

after following my procedures, discover their anxiety is different,

not severe enough, etc., and that they don't need me. If they

had read my ebook first, they could have saved themselves the

cost of a therapy session.

But if there is a need, this process brings it right to the

surface, and the work starts. The next part of the ebook covers

what we need to consider to start to unravel the mystery of anxiety.

I write a lot about what things make it worse.

The best part of my ebook is the section describing how and why we

get anxious in the first place, particularly how anxiety "sets in"

and starts to amp up, chronically or acutely. This is something

that is unique to everyone, so I cover lots of examples but mostly

focus on the dynamics common to us all.

Lastly, there are lots of techniques to managing anxiety, and I

give you four subjective ones that anyone can use. These knock

down the majority of anxiety symptoms for most. There are others

who need actual therapy to fix this last part, and that's where I

have to stop, because any book can't "do" therapy. But I took

readers right up to that point, so most of what I wrote works

without a therapist.

If you need a therapist, this ebook will show you exactly for

what symptoms and where you "stand" compared to the rest of us.

You can make a very intelligent decision at that point.

Dr. Griggs