If you can answer “Yes”

6. Do you frequently feel overwhelmed, anxious or
depressed?
7. Do you feed your stress with unhealthy habits-eating or
drinking excessively, smoking, arguing, or avoiding
yourself and life in other ways?
8. Do small pleasures fail to satisfy you?
9. Do you experience flashes of anger over a minor
problem?
If you can answer “Yes” to most of these questions,
then you do have excessive stress in your life. The good
news is that you’ve bought this book and will learn many
valuable techniques to cope with that stress. But we’ll get
to that later!
Let’s move on to anxiety.
1. Do you experience shortness of breath, heart
palpitation or shaking while at rest?
2. Do you have a fear of losing control or going crazy?
3. Do you avoid social situations because of fear?
4. Do you have fears of specific objects?
5. Do you fear that you will be in a place or situation from
which you cannot escape?
6. Do you feel afraid of leaving your home?
7. Do you have recurrent thoughts or images that refuse
to go away?
8. Do you feel compelled to perform certain activities
repeatedly?