Hope and Help for Your Nerves

The bestselling step-by-step guide that will show you how to break the cycle of fear and cure your feelings of panic and anxiety.

My heart beats too fast. My hands tremble and sweat. I feel like there’s a weight on my chest. My stomach churns. I have terrible headaches. I can't sleep. Sometimes I can't even leave my house....

These common symptoms of anxiety are “minor” only to the people who don't suffer from them. But to the millions they affect, these problems make the difference between a happy, healthy life and one of crippling fear and frustration.

In Hope and Help for Your Nerves, Dr. Claire Weekes offers the results of years of experience treating real patients—including some who thought they'd never recover. With her simple, step-by-step guidance, you will learn how to understand and analyze your own symptoms of anxiety and find the power to conquer your fears for good.“[Hope and Help for Your Nerves] has potent advice for the present moment, when many of us feel we must push back our disquiet more tenaciously than ever.”—Hillary Kelly, The New York Times

“A revolutionary new method for overcoming fear and tension...I recommend it with my whole heart.”—Ann LandersDr. Claire Weekes was the author of the bestselling self-help books Hope and Help for Your Nerves and Peace from Nervous Suffering. Best known for her pioneering work in the study of nervous illness and anxiety, Dr. Weekes lectured at psychiatric hospitals in Britain and spoke often on radio and television both in Britain and in the United States. She passed away in 1990.