This Is Your Brain on Anxiety: What Happens and What Helps
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Faith G. Harper, PhD, LPC-S, ACS, ACN
Faith G. Harper, PhD, LPC-S, ACS, ACN is a bad-ass, funny lady with a PhD. She’s a licensed professional counselor, board supervisor, certified sexologist, and applied clinical nutritionist with a private practice and consulting business in San Antonio, TX. She has been an adjunct professor and a TEDx presenter, and proudly identifies as a woman of color and uppity intersectional feminist. She is the author of the book Unf*ck Your Brain and many other popular zines and books on subjects such as anxiety, depression, and grief. She is available as a public speaker and for corporate and clinical trainings.
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This Is Your Brain on Anxiety - Faith G. Harper, PhD, LPC-S, ACS, ACN
THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON ANXIETY
What Happens and What Helps
Part of the 5 Minute Therapy Series
© Dr. Faith Harper, 2016, 2018
This edition © Microcosm Publishing, 2018
First edition, first published 2016
Second edition, first published March 14, 2018
ISBN 978-1-62106-421-3
This is Microcosm #205
Cover illustration by Meggyn Pommerleau
Distributed by PGW and Turnaround in the UK
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Harper, Faith G., author.
Title: This is your brain on anxiety : what happens and what helps / Faith G.
Harper, PhD, LPC-S, ACS, ACN.
Description: Portland, OR : Microcosm Publishing, 2018. | Originally
published: 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017014396 (print) | LCCN 2017025891 (ebook) | ISBN
9781621065814 (ebook) | ISBN 9781621064213 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Anxiety disorders. | Anxiety disorders--Treatment.
Classification: LCC RC531 (ebook) | LCC RC531 .H37 2018 (print) | DDC
616.85/22--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017014396
Contents
What is Anxiety?
What Anxiety Feels Like
Do I Have Anxiety or Am I Just Anxious Sometimes?
Dealing with Anxiety
More Shit that Helps
Living with Anxiety
Being a Friend to Someone with Anxiety
Conclusion
A Couple of the Books I Shouted-Out Herein
Great Movies About Anxiety
Introduction
When you struggle with anxiety, the most empowering thing in the world is realizing that you aren’t weak, broken, or batshit crazy.
I’m not just saying that to placate you. It’s scientifically true. Anxiety makes perfect sense because it’s how our brains