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Anxiety as an Ally

How I Turned a Worried Mind into My Best Friend

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Anxiety as an Ally

Written by: Dan Ryckert
Narrated by: Dan Ryckert
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After experiencing his first panic attack on New Year's Day of 2003, Dan Ryckert began a 12-year process of learning how to channel panic disorder and generalized anxiety disorder until they became driving forces in his life. Using anxiety as his ally, he was able to land dream jobs within the video game industry and vastly improve the quality of his personal life.

In this candid recollection, you'll learn about how he went from having panic attacks during college roll calls to speaking in front of large crowds with minimal interference from anxiety. More importantly, Ryckert details the methods in which he channeled these once-negative conditions until they became a driving force in his life and something he wouldn't get rid of even if he was given the chance.

©2015 Up to Something Publishing (P)2019 Tantor Ageing Anxiety Disorders Mental Health Psychology & Mental Health Self-Help
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Good points -
Nice detailed narrations in few chapters
Book is a biography of a person who managed to overcome Anxiety by trial and error methods
Interesting points like meditation, pills, and unbiased review is appreciable
Improvement areas -
Becomes monotonous on occassions
Lacks substantive and productive take away points
Main lesson from each chapter gets missed in between other narration text

Good narrative but lacks substance

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