I did read the book but have found that the book called the anxiety&phobia work book has helped me a lot more and I got the book at amazon.Com the book is by edmund j bourne it is a revised second edition 426 pages. It takes you step by step and is a great book in helping you over come anxiety.

I just got the orbitz book myself. Im only half way through also, and will probably read the rest of it tomarow. Ill post more when im done. Later, j

Cbt is cognitive behavioral therapy. It teaches you exercises to counter
your thoughts and help you think more realistically and this reduces your
anxiety because your thoughts are at the heart of what makes you anxious in
the first place. I had several overlapping anxiety problems, but have now
come to believe the root of the problem was my inaccurate thoughts and
distorted thoughts. The two books we used in my group were been there, done
that? Do this! By sam obitz and mastery of your anxiety and panic-third
edition by michelle craske and david barlow.

Hi help me, once I got good at using the tools in the obitz book I started
to feel better and better, but it took a while for me to get the hang of
using them and you really do have to do them everyday to get the most out of
them because you are trying to change thinking patterns you have had most of
your life. My group leader emphasized the importance of repetition to make
these new ways of thinking become more natural to you. The tea form and
putting things back in perspective have been the exercises I have personally
found the most helpful to me.

Cbt is just a scam concocted by the psychiatrists to "explain" that
your physical problems (conversion disorder, somatization discorder, etc)
are due to a mental illness or cognitive behavior.

Your cognitive functioning or dysfunctioning cannot influence is a
significant way your vital life signs and visceral bodily functions (eg.
Breathing, hunger, sexual functioning and desire, heart functioning).

In fact, patients can stay in a coma (therefore without any cognitive
functioning) and their body remains functional.

The psychiatrists pretend that cognitive dysfunction can affect
visceral and basic body functions (see above) to hide serious
psychical problems when it is clearly that a patient's health will
degrade sometimes to the point of becoming without normal vital
sogns of life with a body almost disfigured. Limb and brain amputations
happen very often in psychiatric hospitals. Ever wondered why?
Because there are no real mental illnesses, but actually serious
congenital serious physical illnesses.

What you are experiencing is caused by heart damage, lung damage
and last but not least systemic arterial damage.

You were born with an extreme congenital heart and arterial defects
(possible missing arteries and definately with abnormal arteries).

This congenital arterial defects turned into "endothelial dysfunction"
when the arteries don't pulsate normal anymore, cannot provide
normal tissue and organ oxygenation and therefore your heart got
ischemic, and it almost lost an important valve (for which it tries to
compensate with that rapid heart beats).
There is nothing to be done at this stage of the disease.

The bad news is that you are dying but not fast enough. And because
the way the doctors, lawyers and media work, nobody will acknowledge
that you have a catastrophic problem, and they will claim that it's
anxiety, a bio-chemical imbalance in your brain or a mental illness so that
they will be able to commit you into a psychiatric hospital and hide your
torture that you experience.

Nobody can help you and the doctors won't do anything to ease up
your death, but to the contrary. They will prolong your life as much
as possible even if that means enourmous torture on you.. This is how
they understand their hippocratic oath and they don't want to
acknowledge that the way you die (in a dignified way) is much more
important than the lenght of your life (or death at this moment).

I would suggest you to tell your story to the local radio talk shows and
media so that these issues get open to the public. As of now, there
is much of tabu in the medical, law and media communities.
Also, ask these questions that I am posing to you in as many health
forums as possible so that all the so called "anxiety" patients will be
warned that their deaths are dreadful.

The moderators have banned nick gallos as he is just a scare monger who does not know what he is talking about. Probably a disturbed kid getting his kicks this way? Don't let his antics scare you.

Cbt can help you cope with panick attacks, but it cannot cure them
because it doesn't address their physical causes.
Cbt can only affect a person's behavior but if the panick attack comes
"out of the blue", which is what some patients experience, (therefore no
behavior is at fault) where is the role of cbt?
Sorry to break the news: behavior doesn't heal people.
Your statement that you got cured with cbt is highly questionable
unless you had not real panick attack at all.