Fighting Invisible Tigers: A Stress Management Guide for Teens

Fighting Invisible Tigers is an interesting stress guide for teens, which uses quizzes, drawings, graphs, quotes, and scientific work to show you how to reduce stress in your life. I recommend this book to anyone having trouble with stress, or basically life in general. The author, Earl Hipp, is a well-known psychologist, who has B.A. in psychology and a Master's Degree in Psychophysiology. There are three parts of the book and together they intertwine how to feel better about your self, how to see yourself in a different light, and how to fight off "invisible tigers," his analogy for stress.
The first part of the book is called "Life in the Jungle" and humorously informs you about the "fight-or-flight response," a typical symptom of stress, and what can be done about it. There are included quotes from teenagers and researchers that inform you about what may be stress in your life and how to begin to fight it off. The book then contains information about distraction, avoidance, procrastination, illness, sleep, and escape, the common teenage methods for dealing with stress. The book discusses the pros and cons of these ways of dealing with stress and whether they should be tried or avoided.
The second part of the book is aptly named "Self-Care for Tiger Bites," and involves quizzes and quotes to inform you on how to effectively treat stress in your life. This is the shortest part of the book, but tells you many important things. This part mainly answers the question of "What to do when you can't cope"? and is highly informative and useful for finding effective ways of curing "tiger bites", the analogy for stress catching up with you.
The third and final part of this book in the largest and, in my opinion, the most practical. It mixes up breathing exercises with the importance of laughter and discusses relationships. The title for this part is "Life Skills" and tells you what methods to use in the real world for dealing with stress. A large part discusses relationships and helps you rate your relationships with your friends on a scale. There are many quizzes to let you know if you are affected with stress or if you are a perfectionist. If I had to read only one part of this book, this is the one I would pick.This book is a good resource for dealing with stress, and I recommend it to all teens. The quizzes are useful and fun, and the breathing exercise is a good thing to know, instead of the childish "counting to ten" method. The only problem I have with this book is the fact that is in an "easy-to-read" style and contains few paragraphs, preferring cartoons and bullet points. Despite this flaw (in my opinion), this is a wonderful guide and is a nice thing to have around as a gifted teen.
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