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How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie outlines the detrimental effects of anxiety and offers practical techniques to overcome worrying. Key themes include living in the present, effective problem-solving, and the importance of a positive mindset. Carnegie emphasizes inner peace through gratitude, avoiding hatred, and using faith, while also addressing fatigue's role in exacerbating worry. This book references suicidal ideation and a parent contemplating killing a child, a near-lynching, and discusses mental health disorders and disability in mid-20th century terms that are now considered ableist.