Charles Linden Biography

"I wish that anxiety sufferers could come to me for 5 minutes so I can show them the evidence of what does and doesn't work. When I hear about people having CBT, hypnosis and medications or doing 'self help' programs that claim a lot, but just don't work, it reminds me of when I was anxious, how desperate I was and how much life and money I wasted pursuing these 'so called' cures. I know what we do works every time and it's a frustration to me that I can't show everyone."

Charles Linden

I was born on February 4th 1968 in a small town called Kidderminster in Worcestershire, England. My parents, Lindsay and Jane, were 20 years old when I entered the world kicking and screaming.

I can remember being anxious as a very young child and went through school feeling very timid, shy and sometimes extremely anxious. I had a great family life; lots of love, lots of family events, a great education, despite my anxiety and wonderful grandparents who spent lots of time with me and my brother (4 years younger).

I always had this strange sense of fear and confusion which forced me to use coping strategies to prevent me from doing those things that increased my anxiety, like sleepovers or school trips. I would make up stories about feeling ill or create diversions like fictitious rugby matches to put my friends off the scent when they wanted me to sleepover or go on long bicycle rides.

I always knew I was different. My thought processes were anxious; I'd think about life and death, I'd consider the 'worst case scenario' in whatever I was doing and spent my childhood worried that my parents or grandparents would die or be injured. I had reoccurring nightmares all through my childhood about being chewed up by a giant mangle. I wanted to be a doctor; I wanted to help people; I hated illness and death.

I volunteered in the local hospital when I was 14 and watched my mother operate in theatre as she assisted Dr Wolford Gillison, the surgeon. I stood on a box at the patient's head and watched, fascinated, enthralled and strangely, not at all anxious, desperate to help or do it myself. I did well academically but Chemistry was my weak subject and medical school wouldn't have me. I was devastated.

Of course, all this time, I assumed that everyone felt as anxious as me, but now, looking back, I was always anxious and most other people weren't. I coped through my teens by manipulating my school life, my parents and eventually even, girlfriends, so that I would never be in a position where I was not in control. I hid it well.

Aged 19, I moved to Germany... a brave step for someone with high anxiety, but I had learned that anxiety had no geographic basis and that I would be anxious 'wherever I was', so what did it matter!

In Germany, all hell broke loose. I worked long hours, slept very little and ate the most dreadful diet until, one day, the anxiety hit me like a freight train.

For 7 years, my anxiety was chronic. I became housebound, agoraphobic, I developed OCD and Pure O, I had 8 to 10 panic attacks a day, I had depersonalization, derealization and chronic confusion. I took, Prozac, Diazepam, Seroxat, Stelazine, herbal supplements and masses of other concoctions and potions, therapies and diets. I had CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), EFT (tapping), hypnosis, Reiki, Faith Healing, Therapy, Counseling, Massage, Meditation, even colonic irrigation and a raft of weird and wonderful therapies... did they work? No! Do they work curatively for anyone? No! I know that, now that I have helped tens of thousands to recover, but back then, I was desperate.

In 1997, I decided that ENOUGH WAS ENOUGH.

I KNEW that recovery was possible because I had met recovered people. I knew that it was possible to engineer a recovery... it had to be, if it could happen naturally, there had to be a way to 'make' it happen.

Over 3 months, I researched, I tested, I questioned sufferer and recovered sufferers, I created a structure to work to and I lived my 'method' and within days I was panic attack free, within 2 weeks I was back at work and within a month, I was anxiety free, moving around freely and enjoying life.

I then built a website and gave people my structure to work with. In the first six months, over 2000 people used my Method and fed back data about their successes, failures and experiences. I gave up my 'day job' as a TV cameraman and director, to help my growing group of clients and dedicated myself to curing people in the same way I had cured myself.

Now, 13 years later, I have helped over over 149,000 people using The Linden Method program, I am a founder member of The Emotions Research Consortium with Professor Roddy Cowie and Professor Francis Teeney of Queen's University, Belfast and a group of psychologists and doctors from around the world; I have a TV series and potentially, two more on the way this Fall; my 'Method' has become known as a 'New Branch of Psychological Practice' and national health services, businesses, clinics, hospitals and practitioners around the world, refer clients to us every day. I run anxiety recovery retreats visited by clients from every corner of the earth and treat people from every background to become anxiety free.

From a timid, scared and floundering child who wanted to be a surgeon, to a non-medic who has cured more anxious people using his own, 'home-spun' treatment method and who is respected by the world's most eminent research academics... It was a dream that became a reality. My wife and I run our company from the UK, travel across the world to ensure that our clients receive the very best treatment and best of all, our clients become our friends.

Anyone who tells you that you have to learn to 'cope' with your anxiety using 'anxiety management is an ignorant charlatan. I cure anxiety conditions. I cure panic, OCD, agoraphobia, PTSD and all the associated fears, phobias, symptoms and thoughts. I cure eating disorders, compulsions and body dysmorphic disorder and even depressive conditions and post natal anxiety and depression. I help kids of 6 and grandparents in their nineties.

Myself and my qualified staff consisting of psychologists and counselors, cure long term sufferers who have been abandoned by the medical and psychological fraternity.

If you are human and have a high anxiety condition, you will be cured. If you DO my program, as instructed, you will be anxiety free again. If you don't do it correctly, it won't work. But, if 8 year old Adam from Dallas can be cured of his panic attacks and agoraphobia... so can you!

If you don't use The LInden Method as your first option... you are wasting your time. Just read my testimonials, my credentials, my success and the endorsements first and compare them to any other anxiety specialist... there is no comparison. Look at websites claiming a 'cure' carefully... it's easy to fabricate testimonials, especially ones from the public.

WE provide recovery, not management. WE provide support and guidance, not a shoulder to cry on. WE provide the cure.... Guaranteed.

I am now 43 years old. I have a wife, Beth, two children, Charlie (9) and Florence (8) and despite still living in Europe, we have clients visiting our residential retreat and using The Linden Method from every corner of the globe. regardless of age, ethnicity, sex or background, the cure is the same in every case.

Anxiety sufferers have a gift that so few people have. Massive intellectual resources, creativity and energy that when diverted away from anxiety into more fulfilling tasks, produces great things.

I am proud to be an ex anxiety sufferer and proud to be the person that will change your life.

Yours,

Charles

"We are very happy to be here! The landlords have done an excellent job in retaining many of the old features of the listed building which used to house Victoria Carpets. We can now continue to grow the business and have already started to offer workshops for both individuals and our corporate clients, run by our in-house psychologist, Jenny Saunders."

Beth Linden