Hope and Help For Your Nerves: A PeaceBang Book Review

I finally purchased the classic book on anxiety and panic disorder, Hope and Help For Your Nerves by Claire Weeks.
It’s a wonderful resource!
It was written in 1969 and therefore the language is dated, but I actually prefer Dr. Weeks’ use of the term “nervous illness” to the more clinical panic or anxiety disorder. I also love her thorough description of the parasympathetic and sympathetic system and her reassuring and supportive voice as she describes exactly what it’s like to suffer from chronic anxiety. I love that she acknowledges how exhausting it can be to spend years essentially poisoned by your own adrenalin — none of the other books I’ve read on the subject address that aspect of “bad nerves” at all. She describes better than any other writer I’ve read on the subject how a person with anxiety becomes hyper-vigilant in their own body (”Was that a […]