Take the time to breathe deeply. Control your stress. Stop worrying about everything. that's what you'd like to do, but you believe that, for someone with an anxious temperament like your own, this is impossible. Excessive worrying is, and has always been, part and parcel of your daily life. This 220-page book shows how to overcome chronic anxiety, whether you suffer from its minor or major manifestations. Included here are quizzes, questionnaires, examples and exercises that will help you recognise your own type of anxiety and to define your worries.With the help of one of the world's top specialists in anxiety disorders, readers will be able to make their own personalised diagnosis and then apply the recommended tactics to their own situation. Ladouceur shows that anxiety can be overcome and that it need not be an ineluctable fate.A psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Robert Ladouceur has worked on anxiety disorders for more than twenty years and is regarded as one of the world's top specialists in the field. He is a professor of psychology at Laval University in Quebec City.