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Overcoming Anxiety For Dummies, UK Edition
Elaine Iljon Foreman, Charles H. Elliott & Laura L. Smith · 2011
72/100
👍 Worth It
This one covers the widest ground of the bunch — GAD, panic, phobias, OCD, PTSD, and acute stress — from a team with decades of real clinical experience, and it's one of the few here that actually addresses medication alongside lifestyle fixes. The For Dummies format keeps things broad rather than deep on any one disorder.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety85
Substance / usefulness68
Craft & writing65
Originality50
Evidence & accuracy72
Hype vs delivers55
Age-fit78
Human-eye read58
Penny’s verdict72
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