Nobody understood the cause of anxiety better than Doctor Claire Weekes and nobody came up with a clearer and more effective cure. She also understood that depression can become the handmaiden of anxiety and described it as depletion of our reserves of nervous energy through too much worry, stress and introspection. She first made the acquantance of anxiety as a young woman but fortune smiled on her and she devised a method of escape based on her four imperatives of Face, Accept, Float and Let Time Pass.
Claire Weekes decided that what worked for her would work for others so she published her ideas in a short book easy for tired minds to comprehend. Then she spent the rest of her life peddling her ideas for recovery through further books, lectures and TV appearances. She died some years ago and now others continue to peddle the ideas of the woman who peddled ideas.
Her first book, 'Self help with your nerves' known in the U.S. of A. as 'Hope and help with your nerves', was first published 50 years ago. Some people suggest that therapy for anxiety has moved on since then and her simple methods are an anachronism long since overtaken by psychiatric science. The principles of nuclear fission are just as old but still as valid today. Psychiatry is still an infant science despite its many complex theories but its success rate not outstanding. I claim that more people have been helped along the Yellow Brick Road to recovery by Claire Weekes' Acceptance method than ever recovered at the famous and fashionable Priory Clinic and I have personal experience of both. Unfortunately, mental health is the poor relation to physical health in too many hospitals and doctor's surgeries. That will slowly change as modern living in a rootless society that has forgotten its core values produces more and more men, women and children broken in spirit. Meanwhile we still have the legacy of Doctor Claire Weekes' thinking courtesy of Amazon for a few pounds or dollars available from a tablet, smart phone or PC near you.