As I said, there was value in his personal experiences - but if your anxieties manifest in different ways, his failure to use enough meaningful, detailed examples from people other than himself starts to make it hard to relate to. My father was schizophrenic and bipolar, and the chaos and pain of his illness created tremendous alarm in my system. This can be achieved through holotropic breathwork or other breathing techniques in conjunction with somatic therapies and if necessary, psychotherapy.

I don’t begrudge him the potential of these drugs, but a lot of his musings about it feel esoteric and not particularly grounded in reality.Without being steeped in the concepts and drilling them over and over, a real shift in a lifetime's worth of negative thought patterns would not be possible. Given how prevalent anxiety is now across society, I think this is a profoundly important conversation.

I’ve gone from being a hapless victim of my anxiety, never knowing when it would end, to having a path that helps me every single time anxiety comes up. I think I would’ve preferred Anxiety RX to be more of a workbook with exercises for the reader to engage in instead of the anecdotal style that it employs, though I do appreciate the wisdom within this book. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. RUSSELL KENNEDY, MD is a physician, neuroscientist, certified yoga and meditation teacher, and a professional stand-up comedian.I have every one of these letters from my childhood, and had to skip parts of the ALARMS section because it was too overwhelming. He understood that existing therapies focused only on the mind would never get to the root of the problem—at best, they could help manage symptoms, but they’d never truly heal anxiety.