Having recently come to realise just how incredibly anxious and uptight I really am, as a result of various shit things that have happened over the course of my life, I was wondering if MNers had any good recommendations for books that deal with managing an anxiety problem.
Having been doing some reading for work around personality disorders, I was intrigued to read the description of anxious/avoidant PD as it really chimes with a lot of my habits and experience (info here if you scroll down, although there's enough difference and variance that I am happy to discard the idea that I actually have a PD. But my whole life I have been incredibly uptight and anxious, hypersensitive to what others may think of me, obsessed with fear of failure to the extent that I often don't try, and following my mother's sudden death by her own hand all of these things have been hugely magnified. I've shied away from a lot of things that I would love to do; I have a lot of intrusive thoughts and warding habits; I grind my teeth in my sleep a lot, which gives me headaches, which makes me stressed. Basically, it's a massive pain in the arse so any recs for good reading material would be welcomed.
TIA