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Freedom from Anxiety, Phobias, OCD and Depression:

These problems become so strong because they involve feelings of not being in
control. When we have a sense of control over something we feel safe for we know
we can handle whatever happens. However, knowing that we cannot control
something causes constant anxiety.
This is because we all have an innate drive to understand things that influence our
lives so that we can have some control over them, some control over our own
survival and existence. This drive has led humans to conquer the oceans, the highest
mountains and space and we'll search a lifetime to achieve insight into something we
feel has power over us.

Anxiety and panic, phobias, OCD and depression seem so strong when we don't
understand them and feel that they control us. However, once we learn the nature
of these problems and how they work we can successfully deal with them, for in the
same way they develop and grow, they can be weakened and stopped.

Help-For have published a book 'EVOLVING SELF-CONFIDENCE' which explains the
cause of these problems and how they are overcome. It contains insight into these
problems not available in other self-help books. Insight that goes beyond anxiety and
panic disorders, phobias, OCD and depression to the thoughts and feelings involved -
how they become so strong and how to stop them.

It is based on over twenty years experience and research involving Anxiety Disorders
and Depression: their cause and cure.

Evolving Self Confidence
How to Become free from Anxiety
Disorders and depression

Ranging from the beliefs and drives that
underlie these problems to the things that
weaken and stop them, the information in this
book can help anyone looking to heal anxiety
and panic, obsessions and compulsions and
depression.

It provides insight into:-

• The beliefs and drives that underlie these
problems

• The need to be in control and "thinking too
much", "how to be" and "losing control"

• Constantly going over and searching

• Learning, automatic thoughts and habits

• The mind and body connection and the
"thoughts-feelings-thoughts" cycle

• What makes a "good" person

and explains:-

• How to stop "thinking too much"

• How to reduce and stop "feeling bad" and
"negative thoughts"

• The way to permanently master fearful
situations

• Things that help our mind and body

The explanations and self-help approach in this book:

Deal with underlying processes and drives, not just the symptoms:
For example, take perfectionsim, how can we expect someone to practise not being
perfect in situations when they have an inner self-protective drive to be perfect?
We have to understand this drive, how it connects to the problem and tackle it from
this level - when the reason for the need to be perfect is understood and adapted
there is no more need for the behaviour.

Are based on how these problems affect our mind and body:
It shows how to use the same way these problems develop and strengthen - to
weaken and stop them.

Can help with many types of disorder:
For in a very real sense the underlying reasoning, drives and processes of anxiety
disorders (and most forms of depression) are the same - only the content differs.
Many people display elements of a number of 'disorders' rather than one 'pure'
disorder - eg. someone classified as OCD can also have elements of GAD, social
phobia and depression; people with depression can experience heightened anxiety
and many people with anxiety disorders experience some degree of depression.

Most people get more help from this new understanding than they have found anywhere else:-

"it was "user friendly", ideas and techniques can be readily identified by the
layperson and practised without difficulty (it was somewhat like going to a
therapy session)" ... Generalized Anxiety - CT, USA

"the treatment is very fresh and powerful. After reading it I can't tell you how
hopeful I am for the future" ... Depression - Ontario, Canada

"It helped me feel much more in control of my situation." ... OCD - NC, USA

"I found it to be very helpful without being patronising. It has shown me how
to start looking after myself more and not get nervous and anxious so
easily." ... Anxiety and panic - London, England

"I was deeply moved to find the confusion of feelings I have been experiencing
for the last 11 years explained in an intelligent and coherent manner." ...
Depression - Buckinghamshire, England

"I gained a profound insight especially with regard to the inner conflicts I
believe everybody suffers from." ... OCD - Beirut, lebanon

"It helped me recognise many other symptoms connected to my phobia and
how to deal with them." ... Specific Phobia - Derbyshire, England
"I it very much. I just know that I can do it!" ... Anxiety and panic - CO, USA

"it has been a great help to me. I had so much anxiety that I could not even
comprehend what I was reading until the third time I read it. I read it daily for
support." ... Generalized Anxiety - WI, USA

"I agree with the concept. So far it has worked wonderfully ... there are a lot
of parts to anxiety that I never realized were associated with the problem. I
just thought it was more problems I had. Recognizing them the way in which
you did, really helps" ... Anxiety and Depression - MI, USA

THIS BOOK IS FOR all those of us who suffer the anguish and despair of loneliness
rather than face the perceived rejection that social failure may bring … it is for those
who experience as much fear and panic, in phobia, going into a shop or stepping
outdoors as if they were going to face a firing squad … and for those who are so
convinced that they are physically or mentally ill that no medical tests can convince
them otherwise. It is for those who scrub themselves hundreds of times a day or
repeat phrases and rituals to allay the anxiety and prevent some perceived
catastrophe or retribution from ‘higher forces’ … and it’s for those of us who look
back on a life with regret, in depression, longing for the person they feel they could
have been or should have been. This book is for all of us whose own thoughts,
feelings and behaviours drive a life of anxiety and fear instead of the adventure and
excitement it can be … it is for all of us because we are all doing the same thing.

It's for all these people because the underlying causes of these problems are
basically the same and they develop and strengthen in the same way.

It's a part of all anxiety-related disorders, something so strong that it can
even distort the information coming from our eyes and ears:-

The content may differ- but aren't all the above thinking, feeling and behaving
in a similar way?

Long term anxiety and panic, phobias, OCD and depression can leave us feeling
helpless and that there is nothing that can be done or we can do to be free of them.
Years of searching - reading books and web sites, finding what seem to be answers,
trying ways to think, trying ways to behave, 'get well quick' ideas, therapy,
medication etc. can leave us no better off, or worse than at the beginning ... but it
doesn't have to be like this.

These problems become a part of us, the way we learned, developed and grew from
our experiences. They are a part of the way we think, feel and act and can be no
more removed than can, say: the ability to drive a car, or to bake a cake, for they
are a learned part of who we are.
With anxiety disorders we can spend years trying to get rid of an illness, and we
never will - we should be looking at how we can change what we have learned - for
anxiety disorders cannot simply be removed ... but in the same way they develop
and grow, they can be weakened and stopped

Anxiety and panic disorders, phobias (excepting some specific ones), OCD and many
forms of depression are different expressions of the same underlying problem. They
develop and grow in the same ways and are weakened and stopped in the same
ways.

The book 'Evolving self Confidence' can give you a unique insight into these
problems; their true nature and how they work. It shows how to use this insight
with techniques to weaken and stop them in the same way they develop and grow
... the way to permanently deal with these problems.

.			CONTENTS:
.	PART I: THE CAUSE	As A Child - How life starts to make us feel about ourselves. Feelings - The feelings that hurt. How they work. As We Grow - What we feel about our self develops Panic Attack - Of immense importance, why they happen and how they 'kick-start' these problems How To Be - The final part; underlies all anxiety disorders. A Part of Us - Why they feel like this - our mind and body
.	PART II: THE PROBLEM	The Problem - How these problems develop, step-by-step Symptoms - What all the symptoms mean Anxiety-Related Problems - Unequalled explanation of each individual disorder Making Things Worse? - Current methods and beliefs fuel these problems.
.	PART III: THE ANSWER	Weakening the Connections - How to let these problems fade and die. REDS - Things to do now that help Feeling Good - We've felt bad for a long time ... it's about time this changed Change - What happens, why, and how to let it happen. Love Love Love - Our whole world changes