Doubt or Danger? How Worrying Backfires on You

Feb 1, 2017 | Anxiety Relief, Personal Growth, Stress Management

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Worry likes to trick you into thinking there’s danger where there is none, and then urges you to fight, fly, or freeze. In today’s episode, we’re giving worry a taste of its own medicine with an excerpt from the audio book The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It, written by psychologist and anxiety expert, David A. Carbonell. The Worry Trick shows how worrying and anxiety hijack the brain and offers effective techniques to help you break the cycle of worry—once and for all.

Anxiety is a powerful force. It makes us question our decisions and ourselves, worry about the future, all while filling our days with dread and emotional turbulence. The techniques in this audiobook, rather than encouraging you to avoid or try to resist anxiety, reveal the trick that lies beneath your anxious thoughts, and teaches you why avoiding anxiety backfires and always make things worse.

In today’s episode, Dr. Carbonell shares his funny and wise thoughts on how worrying tricks us. You will learn the difference between doubt and danger, and begin to feel more balanced and in control of your worries.

David Carbonell, PhDDavid A. Carbonell, PhD is a Clinical Psychologist who specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders. He is the founder and director of the Anxiety Treatment Center, Ltd., a small group of psychologists which offers treatment of all manner of fears and phobias at several locations in and around Chicago.

In addition to  The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It, Dr. Carbonell is also the author of the newly revised and updated audiobook Panic Attacks Workbook: A Guided Program for Beating the Panic Trick.

He is a member of the American Psychological Association; the Anxiety Disorders Association of America; the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies; the Association for Contextual and Behavioral Science; the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy; the Illinois Psychological Association; and the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation.

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People sometimes talk about “fear of the unknown” as if it were a special category of fear. Everything about the future is unknown! It’s not the unknown part that people find scary. It’s when they consider the future and think that they do know what will happen, and that it’s going to be bad. That’s when they get afraid.
Dr. David Carbonell

The Worry Trick

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