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Chapter 14 - Dealing With Worry and Anxiety
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Chapter 14 - Dealing With Worry and Anxiety

Andrew Binns, Garry Egger and Robert Reznik
Lifestyle Medicine, pp.235-246
Elsevier Inc, Third Edition
2017

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PTSD Bibliotherapy Kava CBT Anxiety disorders Depression GAD Caffeine Worry
Anxiety is an adaptive phenomenon, which has evolutionary value in appropriate amounts, but health implications in the extreme. Just about everyone has to deal with mild levels of anxiety and worry from time to time but this chapter focuses on overwhelming and distressing anxiety that interferes with quality of life. Causes, physiological responses, and clinical treatment options are discussed.

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