Has anyone read "A Life At Last, anxiety and panic free" by Paul David?

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Im reading it after it was recommended on here but im not really getting it. Can anyone help me figure it out?

I hope it helps. Just to say that Claire Weekes and probably Paul McKenna's books are also on Audible, or the Paul McKenna used to have a DVD! It can help listening to this thing if you don't feel like reading, it helps lower your anxiety just by listening and it's a good way to start out if it all feels a bit helpless. The main thing is to be very kind to yourself.

Thank you. I just really need a breakthrough.

For full disclosure, I'm also on anti-depressants, my GP put me on one which he said works well for anxiety but takes longer, it really did though (venlafaxine). Plus relaxation/breathing, plus time- it takes time for your nervous system to start calming down again as it's used to being agitated. I didn't want you to think I'd just read one book and it was all solved! I think tackling these things in more than one way tends to work best. Plus if you are pre-meno or menopausal, a lot of my friends' anxiety peaked around that, a couple are on HRT, a couple have gone a different route, but it's definitely something that's known to happen. I hope the breakthrough comes for you- I think it will.

Thank you @WayOutOfLine .

I tried setraline but it started me bleeding and as I'm past the menopause i had to wait 7 months for an internal checkup which thankfully was ok, but as someone with health anxiety that 7 months was awful. My GP recently said to try a different antidepressant but I'm too scared to start bleeding and go down that route again. I also tried hrt which gave me bleeding again and worried me so much i stopped them too.
So I'm now trying to help myself by trying to walk and swim and read up as much as i can. I'm beginning to understand where my anxiety comes from but actually stopping it is harder as it totally just depends on whether i feel i have cancer symptoms or not. I can go ages and be fine then find something unusual and my anxiety goes sky high and i make a gp appointment to discuss it. But I'm too scared not to make the appointment. If its a symptom like a headache i don't panic as i know it goes away, but other things on my body haven't gone away, thats why i make the appointment. But i know someone like dh without HA probably wouldn't bother. So i know there is a difference between me and someone more normal and im trying to become more normal but its like I'm fighting years of inbuilt struggle and its hard.
But i do believe i can get better but its just so hard finding the key.