Five Steps to Happiness : Learning to Explore and Understand Your Emotional Mind

Do you suffer from panic attacks? Do you ever feel afraid, anxious or even depressed? Would you like to feel more in control of your emotions?

Five Steps to Happiness: Learning to Explore & Understand Your Emotional Mind offers steps to overcome certain behavioral patterns and also removes the stigma that can be associated with conditions such as anxiety and depression. With over thirty years' experience in the field of mental health, Enda Murphy draws on case histories to inform readers about the five modes of behavior that can cause mental health problems.

Through a writing style that is free from psychobabble and jargon, readers are offered qualified advice on how to cope with and overcome panic attacks, anxiety and depression by changing just five ways of behaving. The book also sets out how to deal with our emotions, and how we can avoid the errors in our thinking that cause mental health problems. Readers are invited to change their ways of thinking to live happier and more emotionally healthy lives.

Although this book specifically targets those who suffer from mental health problems, it is also essential reading for anybody interested in why such conditions occur: family members and loved ones of those who suffer, as well as therapists and health professionals. Extremely practical in terms of identifying and address mental health problems based on experiences from Enda Murphy’s longstanding and respected career as a mental health professional.

ENDA MURPHY is one of Ireland’s best known Cognitive Behavioral Therapists (CBT). He is a project director of the CBT training program with the Irish College of General Practitioners, is assistant director of training with the Health Service Executive North East General Practitioner Training scheme and is actively involved in the development and delivery of CBT training in Ireland. He is also a regular contributor to the medical press in both Ireland and China where he operates CBT clinics. Enda works extensively with GPs and the Mental Health services in the treatment of depression and anxiety and often presents to international medical conferences.