Anxiety Rx: A New Prescription for Anxiety Relief from the Doctor Who Created It

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It was really hard for me to finish this book because the first two sections were extremely repetitive. It’s not short term hacks it’s a compassionate understanding of self with real approaches to manage.

I also take an SSRI, completed over a dozen years of counseling, adopted a low-carb, high protein diet, and even became a personal trainer and nutrition coach because of the anti-depressant effects fitness and diet have on my emotional state. I must warn for any eye rollers, some of the jokes in the best possible way, will bring the eye rolls right on. this interview today is so revolutionary, it's forever changed the way I think about my anxiety and my relationship to it. It is quite logical, not just focusing on the problem, gives possible solution, but I am not sure if it works yet.Russ offers techniques not only for our thinking minds, but for our feeling bodies, changing not just our mindset, but our 'body-set'.

But we don't have to do LSD, because we can just take his word for it that what was revealed to him is applicable to us. Although I’ll talk about my patient’s experiences with anxiety as well as my own, everything within these chapters has been vetted, explored, and applied to my own life. I hadn't heard of either person, but was hooked by the description: "Everything you think about anxiety is wrong. My father was schizophrenic and bipolar, and the chaos and pain of his illness created tremendous alarm in my system.

Full of truth and humor, Anxiety Rx takes the reader on a healing journey, with a deep dive into Dr. All anxiety is separation anxiety, separation from the self initially which gradually magnifies into separation from what is not the self. This book has revolutionised the way I deal with being triggered, I don’t get it right every time but I’m getting a better handle on my anxiety and alarm.

Author begins by telling us his favorite book is Eat Pray Love (what the hell), and it goes downhill from there. The concept had potential, and I was intrigued by the lack of citing studies, etc because at first, it read like having coffee with a knowledgeable friend sharing their own personal experiences in their journey with anxiety. Your mind is an expert level thinker, and you, especially when you are in ALARM, are a mere 𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘶𝘳.

To solve it, learn to recognize when it’s happening, accept those thoughts are irrational, practice grounding techniques (google it), breath work and yoga.