I peddle the ideas of the woman who peddled ideas.

[Jeff1943]

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.

[daisy-17]

I have seen clips of her on you tube she knows what she's talking about. I get very nerves when going shopping etc. I have just bought her book self help for your nerves, can't wait to read it I hope it helps me. Fingers crossed.

[Jeff1943 in reply to daisy-17]

It will help you Daisy, it will certainly bring you immediate reassurance, understanding and an end to bewilderment. But it's not a five-minute fix, the method is simple but it takes practice and perseverance and Letting Time Pass. Her second book 'Release from nervous suffering' has more about agrophobia but I'm jumping the gun. Claire Weekes claimed there wasn't anybody who couldn't be cured by her method.

[daisy-17 in reply to Jeff1943]

I can't wait to read it thanks Jeff.

[Vbee]

I think that the most salient point here is letting time pass! In a society that places so much importance on instant gratification this is the hardest part. Media headlines are flooded with "lose weight fast", "get the body you want in 7 days", now now now.....! This applies to our feelings of discomfort and there are pills for everything to alleviate discomfort. Then we are bombarded with supposedly motivating messages like "find your purpose", "happinesss is a state of mind" blah blah that only reinforces how much of a failure we are because we haven't found our purpose yet and that the sobbing marathon in the shower every night is far from a happy state of mind!!! So we get more and more frustrated about not being able to snap out of it or that the pills take weeks to work or that everyone around us is normal. Let time pass and exercise the facing accepting and floating while on this slow slow journey. Hard as it is. Imagine you're on a boat that no matter how hard the engine is flogged it won't go any faster and you won't get to your destination any quicker so set up your deck chair, pull out a good book, put your feet up and watch the scenery as it passes by and let the engine work at its normal pace.