The Midlife Mind Series · Book 1
The Midlife Mind
A Man's Guide to Understanding and Overcoming Anxiety After 40
Your brain is not broken. It is responding to an alarm system that has become too sensitive.
After forty, the mind that used to carry everything can suddenly start spinning at 3 a.m.: work, health, money, and the years ahead. Few men are given a useful explanation for that. This book offers one. It explains how the brain's alarm system works, how midlife can turn up its settings, and how evidence-based CBT tools can help you retrain it. Clear language, practical mechanisms, and no empty reassurance.
Inside this book
- Why anxiety can show up in your forties: hormones, sleep, and accumulated stress
- The four patterns: the Forecaster, the Scanner, the Controller, and the Ghost
- Thought records, behavioral activation, and graded exposure that help reset the alarm
- How career pressure, health scares, friendship loss, and identity shifts can activate the system, and what helps in each case
- Sleep, alcohol, caffeine, and movement: four levers that shape your baseline
- A 30-day plan that turns insight into daily practice
Each chapter closes with a real-world case, direct answers to the questions men actually ask, and a guide to the companion volume, The Anxiety Workbook for Men Over 40, which includes every exercise in a fill-in format.
- Author
- Ellis Hartwell
- Series
- The Midlife Mind Series · Book 1
- Written for
- Men over 40
- Editions
- Paperback · Hardcover · Kindle
- Trim size
- 6 × 9 in
- Publisher
- Tsunami Reading
Reads well with
The Anxiety Workbook for Men Over 40
A No-Nonsense CBT Guide for the Midlife Mind