Hope and Help for Your Nerves

The bestselling step-by-step guide that will show you how to break the cycle of fear and cure your feelings of panic and anxiety.

My heart beats too fast. My hands tremble and sweat. I feel like there's a weight on my chest. My stomach churns. I have terrible headaches. I can't sleep. Sometimes I can't even leave my house....

These common symptoms of anxiety are "minor" only to the people who don't suffer from them. But to the millions they affect, these problems make the difference between a happy, healthy life and one of crippling fear and frustration.

In Hope and Help for Your Nerves, Dr. Claire Weekes offers the results of years of experience treating real patients-including some who thought they'd never recover. With her simple, step-by-step guidance, you will learn how to understand and analyze your own symptoms of anxiety and find the power to conquer your fears for good.

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Dr. Claire Weekes was the author of the bestselling self-help books Hope and Help for Your Nerves and Peace from Nervous Suffering. Best known for her pioneering work in the study of nervous illness and anxiety, Dr. Weekes lectured at psychiatric hospitals in Britain and spoke often on radio and television both in Britain and in the United States. She passed away in 1990.

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Hope and Help for Your Nerves1. The Power Within You

2. How Our Nervous System Works
3. What Is Nervous Breakdown?
4. The Commonest, Simplest Form of Nervous Illness
5. Cure of the Commonest Kind of Nervous Illness
6. Cure of the More Constant Symptoms
7. Cure of Recurring Nervous Attacks
8. Fear of Leaving the Safety of Home (Agoraphobia)
9. Being Yourself Again
10. Nervous Illness Complicated by Problems, Sorrow, Guilt, or Disgrace
11. How to Cure Nervous Illness Complicated by Problems, Sorrow, Guilt, or Disgrace
12. Problems
13. Sorrow
14. Guilt and Disgrace
15. Simple Explanation of Strange Experiences in Nervous Illness
16. A Feeling of Unreality
17. Obsession
18. Depression
19. That Dreaded Morning Feeling
20. Sleeplessness
21. Difficulty in Returning Home
22. Apprehension
23. Three Good Friends: Occupation, Courage, Religion
24. Dos and Dont's
25. Taking the First Steps
26. Advice to the Family
27. A Husband's Attitude to His Wife's Nervous Illness
28. Fear of Recurring Nervous Illness
29. What Kind of Person Suffers from Nervous Illness?
    Index