Charles experienced severe anxiety himself. Panic. Constant fear. The exhausting cycle of monitoring, reassurance, avoidance, and trying to “stay calm.” Like most people, he sought help through the therapies he was told were evidence-based and effective.
They didn’t work.
Some helped him cope.
Some helped him understand.
Some helped him survive.
But none of them removed the anxiety.
That failure became the most important turning point of his life. Instead of assuming he was the problem, Charles asked a far more dangerous question:
“What if anxiety isn’t being treated correctly?”
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Charles realised something most approaches never questioned:
If fear is a biological survival system, why are we treating it like an emotional problem?
So he stopped looking at anxiety through psychology alone—and started looking at it through biology, evolution, and learning.
What he found was simple, unsettling, and liberating:
Fear is not an emotion you can reason with
Anxiety is not a flaw or weakness
Symptoms are not the problem—they are the consequence
And most therapies were aiming at the wrong target
This wasn’t theory. It was observable, repeatable, and grounded in how the human nervous system actually works.
Most anxiety treatments focus on:
Changing thoughts (CBT, counselling)
Processing emotions (talk therapy, EFT)
Desensitising feelings (exposure)
Calming the body (breathing, mindfulness)
Suppressing symptoms (medication)
These can help you cope.
They can help you function.
They can help you understand.
But fear does not switch off because you understand it.
It switches off when the brain stops predicting threat.
Charles recognised what others missed:
Fear is maintained by risk assessment, not belief
Reassurance and monitoring feed anxiety
Endurance is not the same as safety learning
Trying to “stay calm” often keeps fear alive
If previous therapies didn’t work for you, it’s not because you failed.
It’s because they were never designed to do what you needed: turn fear off at its source.
Charles Linden is often described as a pioneer because he did two rare things:
He identified why anxiety persists
He built a method that aligns with the biology that ends it
The Linden Method does not ask you to:
Control your thoughts
Fight your fear
Expose yourself bravely
Fix your personality
Become more confident
Instead, it teaches you how to stop feeding the fear system the data it needs to stay active.
When threat prediction stops, fear shuts down automatically.
Not through effort.
Not through belief.
Through biology.
That’s why the method works across:
Panic disorder
GAD
OCD-type anxiety
Health anxiety
Phobias
Agoraphobia
Chronic fear states
Different symptoms.
Same mechanism.
Same solution.
People listen to Charles because:
He has been where they are
He explains anxiety without blame or jargon
His work removes shame instead of reinforcing it
His method has helped millions worldwide
His explanations finally make sense of their experience
Most importantly, he doesn’t ask for blind faith.
He asks you to understand how fear works—and then let your nervous system do what it was designed to do.
Recovery is not dramatic.
It’s not a breakthrough moment.
It doesn’t feel like victory.
It feels like:
Forgetting to check
Forgetting to worry
Forgetting to be afraid
And then one day realising anxiety no longer runs your life.
Charles Linden didn’t create another way to cope with anxiety.
He created a way to leave it behind.
If you’ve tried everything and nothing worked…
If you’ve been told to accept anxiety as part of who you are…
If you’re tired of managing, monitoring, and fighting…
Then you haven’t failed.
You’ve just never been shown how fear actually switches off.
That’s what Charles Linden offers.
And that’s why listening to him can change everything.
Charles with Ricki Lake on her show in Los Angeles
Charles helped Will Young’s brother, Rupert, to recover from his anxiety disorders
Charles with Sam Neil and Danny DeVito at the Graham Norton Show
Charles with Miranda Hart at an event
Charles in The Daily Mail with Jemma Kidd
Charles with Gok Wan filming his TV series
Charles helped supermodel, Jodie Kidd, to recover from her anxiety disorders
Charles helped Linda Robson’s son Louis, to recover from his anxiety disorders
Charles helped Vogue Editor and 3 times best-selling author, Plum Sykes, to recover from her anxiety disorders
Charles and Beth in the London Times article about their residential recovery Retreats
Glynis Barber – a great friend of Charles’ and a wonderful advocate for what he does
Supermodel Jodie Kidd and Sister, Lady Jemma Mornington, used The Linden Method to become panic attack free
A three-part series for Channel 4 , Gok Teens: The Naked Truth, featuring Charles Linden on The Linden Method
Bergdorf Blondes’ author and Vogue USA Fashion Editor, Plum Sykes, on her experience using The Linden Method
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