[.ca] From Panic to Power (ISBN 0060927585)

This Book Changed My Life!:
Finally! A book written by a survivor! This book changed my life. Lucinda has a way of making you feel like you are not alone and that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Her techniques have enabled me to take back control and almost eleviate my attacks entirely. Thank you!

Some strong, positive focus phrases:
Professionally I'm a very effective teacher, administrator and facilitator so I wasn't looking for setting goals of what I want to accomplish in that segment of my life. Lucinda encourages that. However I am just climbing up out about 3 years of life's extremes and in recent months panic attacks, which I've experienced during times of extreme stresses over the years, had returned full force. This book gave me some hand-holds to grab and has meant a great deal. Lucinda's quote by Shakespeare led me to be able to name what I really was seeking....."My crown is content". CONTENTMENT. That in itself is a goal. If what I'm doing doesn't lead to contentment then it needs to be reassessed and possibly eliminated. She also reinforced for me that *I* am my own place of safety and that "everything is alright EXACTLY AS IT IS". She led me to check my foundation and then to act on it. I am very grateful for finding this book right at this time.

Same Old Useless Rhetoric:
If you have a serious anxiety problem, you won't find help in this book. First of all, the author seems to be more interested in telling her own story than addressing ways of overcoming anxiety, and her anxiety was minimal. She fusses about being afraid of taking a plane trip to Mexico with a boyfriend (while working full time). Anyone with truly severe anxiety isn't working full time and couldn't consider a trip out of the country. Second, the author repeats herself over and over again. Third, the information in this book is old. If you've read a book about anxiety during the past thirty-five years or so, you already know everything found here. Everything. There is nothing new. I've had anxiety disorder since I was a child, and I'm now fifty-five years old. Because of a series of family losses, heart disease, and other recent traumas, I now also have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This book just added to my anxiety by irritating me with its sophomoric rhetoric.

NO meds?:
I run a panic website and it's proven that panic is hereditary. I've been researching this for years. Meds are necessary in most cases. I didn't totally agree with book, but I gave you high reviews anyway.

Be very careful with information given in this book:
I have been fighting with my anxiety (social in the beginning and generalized lately) for about 8 years. I am doing much better now, but not because of this book. Actually, I read Lucinda's book (don't remember which one exactly) back in Russia, and it didn't have healing effect for me. I got an opposite. I blamed myself for beeing so stupid and not taking any benefit from it. But it wasn't me. The book didn't explain much about how phobia develops, methods and technics to deal with, it explained how you feel when you suffer from fobia. It was pretty much the same result as from reading D. Carnegie "How to Win Friends and Influence People". THEY ARE NOT FOR PEOPLE WITH ANXIETY!!! IT MAY PUT YOU DOWN!!! YOU MAY BLAME YOURSELF FOR BEING UNABLE TO DEAL WHITH SITUATIONS PICTURED IN THESE BOOKS, BUT IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT! I personaly believe that overwelming anxiety can be treated, but it needs an interference of a good therapist, lots of time and patience, and really good books. So far my favorite one is "If you had controlling parents" by D. Neuharth. It is not only about anxiety, it is about distorted personal development. It answeres questions why I am the way I am.