Panic Attacks Workbook: A Guided Program for Beating the Panic Trick

by David Carbonell

Overview

Master your anxiety and regain your freedom to drive, travel, and do everything else that panic has taken from you, with proven techniques and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) exercises.Panic attacks trick millions of people into fearing disaster and giving up so many of the activities they used to enjoy without fear. This practical workbook full of proven strategies and helpful advice on how to master your anxiety and panic is here to help you reclaim your life.Author and clinical psychologist David Carbonell, PhD, uses his extensive clinical experience to help you understand the true nature of your panic attacks, including the vicious cycle of habitual responses that lead to debilitating attacks, how you can halt this self-destructive process, and the many ways you can start on a step-by-step journey that promotes recovery. Inside you'll find helpful methods from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) that will help you regain the life you want to live, including: Diaphragmatic breathing Progressive exposure Desensitization Mindfulness meditation Keeping a panic diary Quieting the voice of anticipatory worry Stepping out of the struggle with panic And much more! Now you can regain all of the freedoms you enjoyed before panic invaded your life with the research-backed charts, worksheets, and programs featured in Panic Attacks Workbook.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781646043354
Publisher:	Ulysses Press
Publication date:	11/04/2025
Sold by:	OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	296
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

David Carbonell, PhD is a clinical psychologist who specializes in treating anxiety. He is the author of four self-help books: Panic Attacks Workbook, The Worry Trick, Fear of Flying Workbook, and Outsmart Your Anxious Brain: 10 Simple Ways to Beat the Worry Trick. He has taught workshops on the treatment of anxiety disorders to more than 10,000 therapists in the US and abroad and maintains a popular self-help website at AnxietyCoach.com. In his spare time, he is the founding member of The Therapy Players, an improvisational comedy troupe of professional psychotherapists in Chicago.

Table of Contents

PART I: INTRODUCTORY
Chapter 1. Introduction and overview
Chapter 2. The Experience of Panic (why don't people recover spontaneously?)
Chapter 3. The Panic Trick (recovery requires breaking the trick)
Chapter 4. The Recovery challenge (developing a workable view of the problem)
Chapter 5. Breaking the Trick

PART II: THE INGREDIENTS FOR RECOVERY
Chapter 6. What maintains panic?
Chapter 7. What you need to recover
Chapter 8. The panic cycle.
Chapter 9. The four kinds of symptoms, and how to deal with each
Chapter 10. Breaking the panic cycle (exposure)
Chapter 11. Discussion of coping techniques (their double edged nature)

PART III: ON ACCEPTANCE
Chapter 12. What acceptance means. Why it needs to guide and color your entire effort.
Chapter 13. Secrecy and self disclosure
Chapter 14. Anger
Chapter 15. Self Talk: the heckler
Chapter 16. Dealing with the issues of "Why?", "Why me?", and the "root cause".

PART IV: COPING TECHNIQUES/DOING IT
Chapter 17. Breathing
Chapter 18. A five step process for panic - AWARE
Chapter 19. The actions stage of AWARE
Chapter 20. The Panic Diary
Chapter 21. Relaxation techniques
Chapter 22. Self Talk: Working with The heckler
Chapter 23. Exposure

PART V: ANTICIPATORY WORRY
PART VI: PITFALLS
PART VII: SUMMARY, GUIDING RULES
PART VIII: IF YOU NEED MORE