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Conquering Trauma and Anxiety to Find Happiness offers trauma
victims suffering from anxiety and other disorders freedom from
continued emotional suffering. National mental health statistics
state 60% of adults, approximately 150,000,000 people, report
experiencing trauma. The National Institute of Mental health states
42,000,000 American adults live with an anxiety disorder often
resulting from trauma. Through this book’s focus on affect theory
and affect labeling, these millions of traumatized and anxious
individuals learn to stop living with chronic stress and their
reactive, inflexible, and rigid responses to life. This book offers
affect theory as a biological explanation to the consequences of
living as a trauma victim by understanding what happened to them
and repairing the harm. Affect theory presents nine
biologically-coded affects to explain emotion, motivation,
behavior, and personality with two positive, one neutral, and six
negative affects. Stimulus from our environment activates an affect
and its preprogrammed responses within our brain and body. Through
facial expressions, along with other physical manifestations, we
understand when an affect activates to help us understand our
feelings. Another intervention featured in this book, affect
labeling or putting feelings into words, encourages us to focus
attention in the present moment to read our body’s sensory
information and integrate our brain and mind. Trauma victims
understand how therapy provides an important intervention for
recovery. An affect management system offers various interventions,
such as diet and exercise, to overcome the consequences of trauma
and anxiety. We no longer need to suffer if we experience trauma
and anxiety.
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