Ten Times Calmer by Dr Kirren Schnack gives you plenty of coping methods for dealing with anxiety and mental health difficulties.

Thank you for the advanced copy of this book in exchange for a review. I thought I had left a review of this already.

This book really helped me, it's very well researched and very well put together and with so many people (young people in particular) dealing with anxiety this book helps you manage your anxiety

Highly recommended

It's always good to have a few tricks in your arsenal when it comes to uncomfortable situations. This book gives exactly that, and it covers anxiety and fears caused by anxiety and causing anxiety.
Dr Kirren Schnack tries to explain the concept and feeling of anxiety in a simpler way, making you look at that from a different perspective. In short, just don't panic and breathe, but if you ever had anxiety, you know it's way far from being "just" and sometimes feeling of suffocation don't really go together with advice to "just breathe". The book consists of patient examples and stories, that help you reflect on different types of anxiety and their causes so that a reader can resonate more with written or see how this or that appears, or maybe see themselves in those stories (oh, I did).
32 tasks/exercises should have you covered. Bad news - none of this is a quick fix and should be done from time to time, and mostly will be based on self-observation. Good news - you won't need anyone to help you with those exercises (unless you want to get professional help, then please do so), you should be able to handle those on your own, going through tests in your head or on paper, journaling, as well as self-observation should calm your mind minimizing anxiety in a long term, and that's exactly what we want.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to Netgalley for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I found this book informative and interesting. So many people suffer from anxiety these days. This book offers some great advice to help manage feelings of anxiety.

As someone who suffers quite badly from anxiety, I am always looking for books that have something new or valuable to offer in terms of helping to combat the hell that can be panic attacks, social anxiety, agoraphobia and related conditions which millions suffer from every day across the world. In this compact 368 pages, NHS Clinical Psychologist Dr Kirren Schnack sets out 10 different chapters each detailing how to deal with your anxiety and make your life easier from here on out.

Bringing together background on why we become anxious and how to stop it or reduce it, she sets out plenty of case studies and important exercises which have helped people in the past to take back control once the anxiety begins to feel like it has taken over. There are a lot of great tips and tricks and a whole lot of understanding and empathy brimming from the pages which is so important as there is nothing worse than having a mental health issue(s) and then a doctor talking down to you about it, but none of that happens here.

Friendly, professional advice given in a caring context and plenty to learn about as you try to get to grips with your condition(s). Well worth your time as everyone seems to have different coping mechanisms they enact in times of crisis.

Really great read - lots of depth and knowledge around anxiety. Really clear strategies to support change in a non-challenging way.

Ten Times Calmer by Dr Kirren Schnack

Very interesting read that goes some way in helping you understand why you have anxiety and gives you a coping strategy to deal with it.
I've never had it before and have managed to get through a good few decades before it has reared its ugly head , but by reading this book , and spending some time to understand my triggers , I think it could really help moving forward.