/lit/ - Literature

ITT: Actual good self help books.

>>22628210

Patience, understanding, and pic related book

The first thing you need to know is that anxiety isn't actually a bad thing. Its there to protect you, without anxiety you'd be dead, Injured, or in social ruin. So dont operate under the mindset of "Anxiety is my enem," but rather "Anxiety is a good part of me, and it's hurt and confused and in need of healing." Since anxiety is actually a part of you, dont disassociate yourself from it. Show love and openness.

The 2nd thing you need to know is what your anxiety stems from. I had existential anxiety. To be vague, I fantasized about a dream and escapist world I had hope to make real and when that fantasy world was threatened by something I did I was hit with immense exenstial depression and I genuinely considered suicide for the first time in my life. My hopes and dreams and worldview were attacked from what I found out. I now see this as a blessing and learning experience from God, but I digress, find out what your anxiety is, and see it in full honesty of what it is. Because just like the first point I mentioned, anxiety exists as something to help us grow even though it is dreadfully painful. I found out I needed to abandon some core beliefs about myself and the world, and I needed to wake up to things that Ive done and their consequences and work on then so they won't happen again.

And finally read the book on the left. This basically killed my 99% of my anxiety. Sometimes doing the first two isn't enough. You've given yourself love, you've given yourself understsnding, but your understanding is incomplete and the principles of the book helped me cope better with my anxiety.