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  • A New Prescription for Anxiety Relief from the Doctor Who Created It
  • By: Russell Kennedy MD
  • Narrated by: Russell Kennedy MD
  • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (27 ratings)

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By: Russell Kennedy MD
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Winner of the 2020 Nautilus Award in Psychology 

Anxiety is unavoidable: Suffering is optional. 

“Anxiety Rx is unlike any book on anxiety and a must-read for anyone who suffers with chronic worry.” (Nicole LePera, PhD) 

The Holistic Psychologist

On February 8, 2013, I was a highly anxious and burned-out 52-year-old physician. That night, as I left my clinic in my usual chronic state of anxiety, I wondered if life was worth living. But I had to be onstage as a stand-up comedian an hour later, so killing myself would have to wait. However, I never got to the comedy club. I suffered an injury that night that would end my medical career.  

I’ve dealt with anxiety since I was a teenager. My father was schizophrenic and bipolar, and the chaos and pain of his illness created tremendous alarm in my system. My mother did her best to love and take care of my brother and me, but she had her own issue with chronic anxiety. I often say my mother was neurotic and my father was psychotic, so my psyche didn’t stand much of a chance!  

I wrote this book to make my father’s eventual suicide and the suffering of my family mean something: to help others like me who experienced chronic worry to understand and fix the pain that was sucking the life out of their lives. I have degrees and advanced training in medicine, neuroscience, and developmental psychology, but much of what I’ll share with you came out of my experiences in very unscientific places.  

This book is unique in its blend of hard neuroscience and soft spirit. For over 30 years, I searched for relief from anxiety and saw over 50 practitioners ranging from Indian shamanic energy healers to highly accomplished psychiatrists. (I was lucky I was a doctor so I could afford to be a patient.) Have you, too, gone to extraordinary lengths to resolve your chronic compulsion to worry and are still suffering? Listen on. What makes this book different is its relentless focus on calming anxiety at its true source, which I will share with you in detail. That source is in a place most doctors and psychologists fail to explore, and that oversight is why the positive effects of most anxiety therapies tend to wear off over time.  

Although I’ll talk about my patient’s experiences with anxiety as well as my own, everything within these chapters has been vetted, explored, and applied to my own life. The ideas and practices are unique, novel, and effective. This is my life’s work and the ultimate book of high-impact solutions for escaping the trap of chronic worry. I truly do not want you to suffer as I have!  

I’ve gone from being a hapless victim of my anxiety, never knowing when it would end, to having a path that helps me every single time anxiety comes up. People with anxiety are confused because they don't know what is happening to them. In this book, I'll show you exactly what is going on in your mind and your body and exactly what you can do about it. What is in this book has changed my life very much for the better, and I know it will do the same for you. 

©2020 Russell Kennedy (P)2021 Russell Kennedy

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Great book and excellent narration by the author

Great book and excellent narration by the author, would recommend to anyone who suffers from anxiety and stress, or alarm I should say

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  • jo
  • 29-04-2023

Great listen 100%

So easy to follow, a great listen if you really want to understand your anxiety and look at it from the outside in.

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Fabulous

A brilliant, refreshing and enlightening view on anxiety and really helped me. Also very funny, I am realising that my humour is like the author’s weird, quirky and just a little bit annoying and I love that about myself 😊 Thank you Russell

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A must read (or listen!)

An incredible and insightful life manual! It came right at the right moment in my healing journey!

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Never too late to learn

So pleased I read this book, it has helped me understand what I have been focusing on for the past 64 years.. I am going to practice my ABC and hopefully be able to make new tracks..
Thank you Russell, I appreciate your work and am grateful for your advice 🤗

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Anxiety is a future based thinking process

Dr Russ uses humour & short sharp examples to talk the reader through a revolutionary process for healing from anxiety by learning to sit in your body’s alarm feeling & not feed the unhelpful thoughts. Turns CBT on its head!!

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So helpful!

This book has helped me to reframe & lessen my anxiety more than anything else I’ve ever read. It can be a little repetitive at times but it has brought me so much relief that continued to snowball as I moved through the chapters. Cannot recommend it highly enough, I’m so grateful I stumbled across this book.

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Grateful I read it

So long winded and unnecessarily repetitive, which makes for a longer book than is helpful. Dont give up. That last third of the book the most helpful. However, he has definitely got truth in here. I do believe our bodies have a lot to teach us. Bit scathing of other professions because he didn’t find them useful which of course makes him his own authority. I have found it very practical and hugely annoying at the same time. Having said that I will practice the A B C.

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  • Caz
  • 27-12-2022

Honest, approachable and funny

What a great book! I enjoyed my time spent with Dr Kennedy. He was knowledgeable, honest and approachable. The humour throughout the book made it engaging on what could be a challenging topic.

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Excellent and heartfelt!

Exceptional and Outstanding! One of the best on the subject. Thank you Dr. Russell Kennedy.

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