Overcoming Stress-Induced Mind Fog by Jill Weber covers ten methods to search out focus and make your thoughts work higher. It’s geared toward people who find themselves experiencing mind fog resulting from power stress quite than resulting from sickness. The e-book attracts on ideas from cognitive behavioural remedy (ACT), acceptance and dedication remedy (ACT), and mindfulness.
The e-book begins by explaining how power stress impacts the thoughts and physique, after which there’s a chapter devoted to every of the ten methods, together with overcoming survival mode with emotional consciousness and overcoming irritability and stress with mindfulness and acceptance.
The writer differentiates between false self-care (coping methods that solely find yourself making issues worse) and wholesome coping, and the e-book addresses wholesome habits round diet, sleep, train, and leisure.
A number of the different subjects which can be addressed embrace avoidance, cognitive distortions, self-compassion, perfectionism, self-talk, and how you can make new habits stick.
This e-book isn’t geared toward individuals coping with psychological sickness, and I feel the writer does a great job of presenting remedy and psychological health-related ideas in a means that’s prone to be accessible for individuals who don’t have background data. It’s sensible and doesn’t really feel particularly therapy-ish, and I feel it will be a good selection for individuals coping with power stress.
On a facet be aware, I’m not an enormous fan of the time period mind fog. This isn’t a problem with the e-book, however the time period extra usually; I simply discover it a bit too obscure to be helpful, and there isn’t an equal medical time period. Fuzzy-headedness in power stress, fibromyalgia, and despair aren’t essentially the identical factor (for instance, a examine within the journal PLoS One appears at variations in cognitive signs between fibromyalgia and despair), however they might all find yourself getting lumped into the identical colloquial mind fog bucket. I in all probability care as a result of my depression-induced molasses mind feels subjectively completely different from stressed-out-when-well mind.
Is mind fog of any type one thing that you simply deal? How do you handle it?
Overcoming Stress-Induced Mind Fog is obtainable on Amazon (affiliate hyperlink).
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