Reddit reviews The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Anxiety: A Step-by-Step Program

This is helpful, however woefully incomplete in methods for dealing with a major contributing factor for most chronic procrastinators: poor emotion regulation. This study gives an overview of a theory of procrastination that emphasizes the role of emotion regulation.

To that end, cognitive behavioral therapy methods can aid one's ability to regulate emotions and can be effectively learned without even going to therapy. There are free and paid workbooks that one can use to learn emotion regulation techniques. These techniques I think compliment the guide here, and better pinpoint the root cause of procrastination for many.

CBT might help, with a work book like this. https://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Behavioral-Workbook-Anxiety-Step/dp/1572245727

I would also look into gratitude journaling and building success spirals. Basically, set small tasks that you can succeed in that in turn lead to other tasks.

It's unfortunate that our country doesn't provide us with therapy... disgusting actually. Mental illness is something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy, and not being able to mitigate it because you can't afford it is disgusting anyway you look at it. You have my best wishes bro. However, if I may recommend a book since you can't afford a therapist... THIS helped me. It's the next best thing to therapy.

Hmm, this is a tough cookie. My best bet for you would be congitive behavioral therapy. Here is a book that helped me. It's nice because it has useful information, and doesn't have that "self-help vibe" about it. You know, where the author uses exclamation points incessantly and states, "you can change now!!!!" Like a broken record. Yeah, this is definitely a book you want to check out.

http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Behavioral-Workbook-Anxiety-Step-/dp/1572245727/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333320102&sr=8-1

Great job!

I had to commute this summer 45 minutes each way to my internship, and I had a few panic attacks on the road at the start but they slowly went away. One tip I've heard & used has been to turn up the radio & sing along loud to distract yourself, and I also started listening to podcasts in the car which is great because it's harder to tune out information/whatever you're listening to rather than music that maybe you've heard before.

Also, I don't know what it feels like for you, but sometimes I would get scared by anxiety-related chest pain on the road, but I eventually learned to just pull over somewhere safe, take a few minutes to take some deep breaths, recognize that I'm ok, wait a bit for it to go away and get back on the road...and treat that as 'ok' and not beat myself up like 'OMG I'm freaking out, something bad is going to happen.' Instead, just 'ok, anxiety came up, I handled it, I know that I'm actually OK, and I'm going to keep doing what I was doing.' The best thing is to not add layers to the anxiety by worrying about it.

Tangent: reading/doing this workbook really helped. http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Behavioral-Workbook-Anxiety-Step-/dp/1572245727/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413363281&sr=1-2&keywords=cognitive+anxiety

Aside from going to your school advisors, which I definitely would recommend, there is some very good online counselling resources, as well as books. For online options:

https://www.talkspace.com
http://www.7cups.com
http://blahtherapy.com

For books, I've found the "Cognitive Behavioural Workbook" series which is based off of the cognitive behavioural therapy method that psychologists use for different problems. There are different books for different issues, but there's one for depression that I've personally used, and one for anxiety

I just do whatever other people on www.meetup.com are doing. There are lots of local clubs around little hobbies, so just pick one and you'll automatically be doing it with a dozen other people.

Also, may I recommend Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? It's a drug-free psychotherapy that's been proven very effective for anxiety issues like yours. There are therapists who specialize in this or you can guide yourself with a book.

Does it have to be military-related, or about resilience in general? Military-related:

https://www.apa.org/pubs/books/4317311

https://www.rawatbooks.com/psychology/stress-and-resilience-in-the-military

https://www.amazon.com/Roadmap-Resilience-Military-Victims-Families/dp/0969884028

https://readyandresilient.army.mil/resources.html

There are few resources specific to the special forces that are actually any good (I could only find non-experts pushing an agenda with this concept).

Non-military:

https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/road-resilience

https://www.amazon.com/Resilience-Workbook-Essential-Recover-Adversity/dp/1626259402

https://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Behavioral-Workbook-Anxiety-Step/dp/1572245727

https://www.amazon.com/Self-Esteem-Cognitive-Techniques-Assessing-Maintaining/dp/1572241985

This one just explains what CBT is:
http://www.nami.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Inform_Yourself/About_Mental_Illness/About_Treatments_and_Supports/Cognitive_Behavioral_Therapy1.htm

THIS page has a ton of free worksheets: http://www.getselfhelp.co.uk/freedownloads2.htm

More worksheets:
http://psychology.tools/download-therapy-worksheets.html

And some books:
http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Behavioral-Workbook-Anxiety-Step-/dp/1572245727/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412908905&sr=1-2&keywords=cognitive+behavioral+therapy

http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Behavioral-Therapy-Skills-Workbook-Gregory/dp/1936128020/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412908905&sr=1-3&keywords=cognitive+behavioral+therapy

Please give this a try!

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. a lot of psychologists do it, you can ask your GP or shrink if they know anyone who does. you can do it on your own with workbooks too. i used this one - https://www.amazon.ca/Cognitive-Behavioral-Workbook-Anxiety-Step/dp/1572245727

i get being impatient. i think you can definitely get better without dealing with the past right now. in the short term you can learn to control your panic attacks and understand your triggers.