Mind Easing

Today more than ever, everyone must be her or his own healer, and this is especially true in the management of anxiety and depression. In the first major conceptual leap in mental health care in forty years,Mind EasingsThree-Layered Healing Plan harmonizes wellness approaches, therapy, and, when needed, medicine into a safe and effective plan tailored to the needs and wishes of the individual.Written by noted psychiatrist Bick Wanck, MD, one of the founders of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and an experienced clinician, writer, and educator,Mind Easingshows how to relieve and often resolve anxiety and depression by assisting the minds natural ability to heal. Along with non-medicinal healing methods,Mind Easingshows how to use psychiatric medicine (if needed) safely and effectively as part of a mindfully constructed healing plan. Because some psychiatric medicines can blunt feelings and dull thinking, they can impede the flow of healing and interfere with the pleasures of living.Mind Easingsuggests when and how psychiatric medicines may be stopped when they are counterproductive to healing.Mind Easingpresents a comprehensive Three-Layered Healing Plan for anxiety and depression. Some readers will find all they need inLayer One: Enhancement of Healingwithout needing the help of a professional. Others will benefit fromLayer Two: Guidancewhich describes howpsychotherapy, body and energy work, and spiritual guidance may be used to assist healing. Those readers who experience severe anxiety and depression will find helpful information inLayer Three: Restoration of Healing.where Dr. Wanck explains the concepts of soft and hard anxiety and depression. Soft anxiety and depression are generally caused by stressful current life events or past genetically inherited conditions or by physiologic hardening of symptoms resulting from persistent or severe adversity or trauma.