Get Thee to a Therapist: A Survival Guide for Managing Anxiety and Panic Attacks from a Girl Who's Been There

by Reba Buhr

Overview

"Out, Damned Anxiety"

When panic attacks take over your body and heart-pounding anxiety suddenly makes it impossible to get through the day, you want answers.

What is happening to me?
Why is this happening?
How do I fix it?

When aspiring actress Reba Buhr was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder in college, she didn't have the first idea how to approach healing. Today, she has become an advocate for others who suffer from life-changing anxiety and panic.

Get Thee to a Therapist is a survival guide for the mental illness newbie. Are you nervous about talking to a therapist and psychiatrist? Not quite sure how to use health insurance to make appointments? No money for either of those?

Reba explains how you can find support at every income level and how to make therapy and medications work for you. She introduces coping tools that have helped her and covers little-known laws that protect people with a mental health diagnosis at work and school.

She has enlisted the help of doctors to explain what's really going on in your body and the medications and lifestyle changes that can help you rebalance your system and get back to living an anxiety-free life.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940186677246
Publisher:	Joba Media Inc.
Publication date:	10/03/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Reba Buhr is a musical theater nerd from Maple Valley, Washington. She has worked and played in the entertainment industry since she was a teenager and has bachelor’s degrees in theater and voice from Occidental College. Today she makes her money as an actress, host, and voice actor in Los Angeles.

Reba’s voice can be heard in dozens of animated projects and video games; she has narrated over 200 audiobooks, and earned several AudioFile reviews and awards for her work. She is a Groundlings-trained improviser and comedienne. Her hosting career began as the host of the Disney Channel Interstitial Disney 365 where she interviewed stars like Zendaya, Bella Thorne, and Jane Goodall. She also worked at the Disneyland Resort for many years playing characters like Princess Jasmine in Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular! and a Jedi Knight in the Jedi Training Academy. Clips of her work can be found at www.rebabuhr.com.

Reba was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder when she was twenty, and her panic attacks have created big changes in her life and ruined several vacations. She’s an open-book kind of girl and has always been an advocate for mental health treatment in a world where many people feel pressure to hide their diagnosis.

One day, Reba was approached by a friend who asked, “I know you have experience with anxiety. How do I get help?” Soon another distressed friend came calling for advice about anxiety medication. As the calls and texts kept rolling in, she realized there was a need for a comprehensive
“Intro to Mental Health in America.”

Get Thee to a Therapist is her debut book and is born out of many years of doing the healing work herself, guiding friends toward helpful resources, and finding and interviewing professionals in every area of mental health so she could really understand how the system worked.

When she’s not acting or advocating, she loves camping with her husband, John, and practicing Taekwondo.

Editorial Reviews

This accessible and readable guide is perfect for anyone who is starting out on their mental health journey and needs a little encouragement in the form of tangible resources, digestible information and a highly relatable narrator.

author of Overthinking About You: Navigating Romantic Relationships When You Have Anxiety, OCD, and/or Depression - Allison Raskin

This book is not only PRACTICAL but full of heart - Reba knows panic attacks inside and out, breaking down the science behind why our bodies and minds do what they do! Knowledge is power...take this book everywhere!

author of Don?t F*cking Panic: The Shit They Dont Tell You in Therapy About Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attacks, and Depre - Kelsey Darragh

Compassionate, relatable, and actionable. This book is a must read for anyone looking for relief from panic attacks and overwhelming anxiety.

author of The Power of Therapy: How to Navigate Change, Transform Trauma, and Make Sense of Your Mental Health Care - Joshua Newman, LPCC

Reba has written something anyone with anxiety or panic (on any level) needs to read. This is a "How To" book I didn't know I needed. I've been living with anxiety and depression for almost 15 years and walked away with new insights and legit step by step instructions on things that we NEVER get taught how to handle

actor and Tony Award Nominee - Caitlin Kinnunen

A handy, practical, informative companion guide for anyone grappling with anxiety and panic attacks.

author of Retrain Your Anxious Brain: Practical and Effective Tools to Conquer Anxiety - John Tsilimparis, MFT