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Soothe Your Nerves

The Black Woman's Guide to Understanding and Overcoming Anxiety, Panic, and Fear

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Do you or someone you love suffer from "bad nerves"?
  • Denise is constantly on edge. She's convinced something bad is going to happen.
  • Ruth will drive an hour out of her way to avoid driving over a bridge. When she has to do it, her chest thumps, her heart starts racing, and she breaks out in a sweat. She's beginning to think she shouldn't leave her house.
  • Bernice hasn't slept in two months for fear that the witch is going to ride her again.
    What do these women have in common? They are struggling with crippling anxiety disorders.
    Thousands of Black women suffer from anxiety. What's worse is that many of us have been raised to believe we are Strong Black Women and that seeking help shows weakness. So we often turn to dangerous quick fixes that only exacerbate the problem — like overeating and drug and alcohol abuse — or we deny that we have problems at all.
    In Soothe Your Nerves, Dr. Angela Neal-Barnett explains which factors can contribute to anxiety, panic, and fear in Black women and offers a range of healing methods that will help you or a loved one reclaim your life.
    Here finally is a blueprint for understanding and overcoming anxiety from a psychological, spiritual, and Black perspective.
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      • Library Journal

        August 1, 2003
        In this self-help guide, Neal-Barnett (psychology, Kent State Univ.; coauthor, Forging Links: African American Children Clinical Developmental Perspectives) nicely blends her experiences in psychotherapy with her revealing perspective on the spiritual and cultural aspects of African American women. She explains that what is commonly referred to in the black community as "bad nerves" is now clinically defined by professionals as anxiety, which she differentiates from fear. Also described are the forms and causes of anxiety and fear-including panic attacks, social phobia, specific phobia, generalized anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder-and research on today's generation of medications. Readers will also find advice on selecting a professional (an important concern since African American female psychotherapists are extremely rare), interweaving religious beliefs with therapy, and setting up and correctly managing "sister circles." Ultimately, the author provides an excellent guide for African American women that doubles as a supplemental reference for helping professionals with that clientele. Highly recommended for all academic libraries supporting the helping professions and larger public libraries serving black women.-Dale Farris, Groves, TX

        Copyright 2003 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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