No Worries: Spiritual and Mental Health Counseling for Anxiety

This is a unique practical and helpful book about anxiety and how faith can help. Written by a practicing Christian psychiatrist it draws upon her many years of experience helping people with mental conditions including phobias of various kinds depression obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) and other issues including domestic abuse which she affirms does sometimes even happen among churchgoing believers. Eshewing all easy believisms and pious platitudes Dr. Elaine Eng describes each condition through composite cases showing how the symptoms can affect not only the afflicted persons mental health but also his or her physical spiritual and relational health as well. In addition she outlines medical and psychological treatment alternatives in each case plus how people who care about the afflicted individual can help and provide support. The authors goal is to help pastors counselors and other people-helpers identify symptoms of common disorders related to anxiety so they can provide compassionate well-informed advice to those who are suffering usually in silence loneliness and fear. As one endorser put it This book is a must read for Christian leaders who wish to understand how the mind works and when impaired can be properly diagnosed treated and brought back into wholeness. As I travel the world I see fellow believers suffering from different forms of anxiety and worry. This book gives me tools to recognize when people are suffering and how to encourage them to get the help they need.