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Unfuck Your Anxiety
Using Science to Rewire Your Anxious Brain
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Self ImprovementUnF#Ck Your ANXIETY
Using Science to Rewire Your Anxious Brain
Part of the 5 Minute Therapy Series
Š Dr. Faith Harper, 2016, 2018, 2021
This edition Š Microcosm Publishing, 2021
First edition, first published 2016
Third edition, first published March 9, 2021
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eBook ISBN 978-1-62106-673-6
This is Microcosm #205
Edited by Lydia Rogue
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IntroDuction
Anyone with anxiety would fail a lie detector test over it.
âStop being anxiousâ has never worked in the history of ever, has it? Someone telling you not to be anxious has never netted the response of âHoly shit, I never thought of that! Iâm totally good now, thanks Big Daddy!â
Expecting you to just suppress your anxiety is ridiculous. I mean, you can say youâre fine but if you were hooked up to a lie detector your body would be screaming bloody murder that you are clearly as unfine as fuck. Which means if we can see the numbers we need to treat it as the very real health issue/public health crisis that it is.
Which leads me to why this book came to be.
The original version of this book, This Is Your Brain On Anxiety, did better than probably everyone expected it to. Or at least better than I expected it to. I imagine that the inescapable reality of chaos politics, pandemics, and deep state racism helped sales. Unfortunately. But even current reality aside, anxiety is a common and universal human experience with some great books written about it and a ton of really awful ones.
People kept reaching out to me saying âHoly shit, I got so much more from this tiny book than all these other door-stop sized books!â which is admittedly great for my ego, but a depressing commentary on the utility of what else is out there.
So that got us to thinking . . . could we bump up our game? Could we expand the anxiety book with just enough stuff to make it more useful without making it a fifty dollar doorstop?
And? Fuck, yeah, we can do that.
So thatâs what we did here. I included a lot more information about different types of anxiety disorders, more specifics on treatment options, more DIY anxiety management tools, and even more science on brain differences and cultural differences that lend themselves to anxiety. Cuz yâall my fellow nerds and I love it.
(Not to mention the fact that there are some amazing books out there on anxiety so I expanded my list of favorites in the appendix. None are 50 dollar doorstops. All are incredibly useful and/or incredible context regarding the human condition.)
Original Introduction
When you struggle with anxiety, the most empowering thing in the world is realizing that you arenât weak, broken, or batshit crazy.
Iâm not just saying that to placate you. Itâs scientifically true. Anxiety makes perfect sense because itâs how our brains are wired to protect us. Certain mental health issues, anxiety being one of them, are the direct result of how we have evolved for survival. Certain memories are stored in certain ways in order to protect you. When those memories are triggered, rational thought gets bypassed and your body goes into do something to fix this mode. (If you wanna nerd out more on the brain science stuff, you should totally read my other book, Unfuck Your Brain.)
If youâre still reading, that probably means that your brain regularly gets hijacked by anxiety. And youâre over that shit. And you want your life back. So hereâs what weâre going to talk about:
1) What anxiety actually is. You know, as opposed to all those other emotional states (fear, depression, etc.) that seem all vaguely interconnected but have a lot of differences in terms of whatâs going on in the brain and how we can best manage them.
2) The whole brain science/brain chemistry aspect of how anxiety is triggered.
3) The how-to-deal-with-it part. Both in the middle of an attack, and more generally over the long term.
4) How to cope when you also have to deal with other people, relationships, jobs, schools, etc. Anxiety wouldnât be so bad if it wasnât for other people in your life, right?
5) How to provide support if someone you care about has anxiety. Because thatâs just as helpless a feeling as having anxiety yourself.
Has anyone ever told you âYou should try yoga! Or meditation! Or keep a thought diary! Or spin in a circle three times when a bell rings!â
Sometimes (okay, a lot of times) people will suggest something because they read about it, or tried it themselves, or saw other people try it and that it helped. But when youâre in the midst of feeling anxious, you look at any option and think, can this actually help my anxiety? And if so, how is it actually helping?
We all get to a point where we are tired of spinning around when the bells ring in hope...
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- Unfuck Your Anxiety, 2nd Edition