Anxiety Free: Unravel Your Fears Before They Unravel You [Hardcover] [2009] (Author) Robert L. Leahy

Anxiety Free: Unravel Your Fears Before They Unravel You [Hardcover] [2009] (Author) Robert L. Leahy We live in the Age of Anxiety. In any given year, about 18 percent of Americans will suffer from an anxiety disorder, and over the course of a lifetime, this number rises to nearly 30 percent. The rates of overall anxiety have increased dramatically during the last 50 years. In fact, the average child today exhibits the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the 1950s. Thanks to advances in modern psychology, we know much more about anxiety than we once did-where it comes from, how it operates on the mind, and the behavior it generates. Understanding anxiety is the key to overcoming it.