This Is Your Brain on Anxiety: What Happens and What Helps

Faith G. Harper

Jun 2018 · Blackstone Publishing · Narrated by Erin Bennett

About this audiobook

Anxiety—it’s the worst: choking, stifling, smothering, tingling, panicking, brain cutting out, bad decisions. You’re a human being, so you know exactly what’s being said here. Dr. Faith lays it all out: what anxiety is, what it’s good for—that’s right, it’s actually a necessary response that helps to keep us alive in bad situations—how to know when it’s gone overboard, and practical tips on how to deal with it when it gets bad. This book is a lifesaver for panic attacks, breaking out of flight-or-fight-or-freeze responses, and for chronic anxiety. It’s also good for folks who aren’t daily burdened by anxiety, but want to better cope with those tough situations that affect us all. Read this and breathe!

Ratings and reviews

Okay. Yes, there is a rather shallow attempt to flow with a younger crowd, as many other reviews have mentioned, but it's really not as bad as the prudish reviews deduce. I am a potty-mouthed 42-year-old, and I kind of like the no BS (layman's term) approach. There is no sugar coating. Just simple facts like you're talking with a friend and not a stuffy, pretentious, know it all doctor/ author.

Regret! This is the worst book with ever for anyone with an anxiety disorder. Full of inapropriate language and cursings. I was not expecting to be feeling sorrow but uplifting from a book an anxiety. Was I ever disappointed. I want my money back.

The constant swearing is jarring for a psychology book. totally unnecessary. was the author trying to be cool with young people? if so, she failed. "my fellow kids" vibe. She used the word "interwebz" verbatim. As for the book itself, it's OK but definitely not an eye opening self help masterpiece. It helps understand your issues.

About the author

Faith G. Harper is a bad-ass, funny lady with a PhD. She is a licensed professional counselor, board supervisor, certified sexologist, and applied clinical nutritionist with a private practice and a consulting and training business in San Antonio, Texas. She has been an adjunct professor and a TEDx presenter and proudly identifies as a woman of color and uppity, intersectional feminist. She is the author of several highly popular “five-minute therapy” zines on subjects such as anxiety, depression, and grief.

Erin Bennett is an award-winning, Los Angeles-based voice actress whose passion for storytelling informs her love of narrating audiobooks. An AudioFile Earphones winner, she has recorded 130 titles for Penguin Random House, Hachette, Harper, Blackstone, Recorded Books, Tantor, Deyan, Dreamscape, and Audible, among others. Her genres vary widely, from literary fiction to mysteries to science fiction to memoir, as well as nonfiction, multicast recordings, and romance. Her recent on-camera work includes Grandfathered on FOX and Children's Hospital on Adult Swim, and her voice-over work spans animation, radio plays for the BBC, video games, and commercials for radio and television.