My age of anxiety : fear, hope, dread, and the search for peace of mind
Summary
The author recounts his lifelong battle with anxiety, showing the many manifestations of the disorder as well as the countless treatments that have been developed to counteract it, and provides a history of the efforts to understand this common form of mental illness. Full description
- The riddle of anxiety
- The nature of anxiety
- What do we talk about when we talk about anxiety?
- A history of my nervous stomach
- A rumbling in the belly
- Performance anxiety
- Drugs
- "A sack of enzymes"
- A brief history of panic; or, how drugs created a new disorder
- Medication and the meaning of anxiety
- Nurture versus nature
- Separation anxiety
- Worriers and warriors, the genetics of anxiety
- Ages of anxiety
- Redemption and resilience
- Redemption
- Resilience.