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3.61 AVERAGE
3.61 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
reflective
medium-paced
Bringing together a wide range of material including research in science and psychology, funny anecdotes and interviews with specialists and fellow sufferers, Sarah Wilson explores anxiety in a very unconventional way.
In a funny and wise manner she examines her case suggesting little tips and recommending big lifestyle changes that helped make her beast beautiful.
It is a very intimate statement that, as a person interested in wellbeing, I hugely enjoyed. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
In a funny and wise manner she examines her case suggesting little tips and recommending big lifestyle changes that helped make her beast beautiful.
It is a very intimate statement that, as a person interested in wellbeing, I hugely enjoyed. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I book about anxiety that gave me anxiety. No thank you!
After finishing the book:
I really loved the meandering journey Wilson took me on, which in the end, led me back to myself.
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Long story short, it’s really time to deal with my anxiety (causing insomnia on and off since 2023, since 2006, since always). If you've ever slept poorly due to a "noisy mind", this book is for you.
It’s a beautiful but un-corny examination of the nature of anxiety, including factors that are neurochemical, genetic, nutritional, of course behavioral like strategies we can do, and others, with bits of memoir thrown in as a backbone. She includes a bit about the interplay of physical and mental health, which really resonated with me.
I almost stopped reading it, as I was having a hard time and it was a little intense and I thought maybe I should just journal, or meditate, or slow down, and then next chapter would literally be all about the very thing I considered quitting the book for.
Overall reading this, I feel less alone and have more hope. I feel less anxious and bad about feeling anxious. I feel like "Anxiety" AKA the mind overworking can be a superpower when harnessed in a healthy way. So far so helpful and validating.
I really loved the meandering journey Wilson took me on, which in the end, led me back to myself.
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61%
Long story short, it’s really time to deal with my anxiety (causing insomnia on and off since 2023, since 2006, since always). If you've ever slept poorly due to a "noisy mind", this book is for you.
It’s a beautiful but un-corny examination of the nature of anxiety, including factors that are neurochemical, genetic, nutritional, of course behavioral like strategies we can do, and others, with bits of memoir thrown in as a backbone. She includes a bit about the interplay of physical and mental health, which really resonated with me.
I almost stopped reading it, as I was having a hard time and it was a little intense and I thought maybe I should just journal, or meditate, or slow down, and then next chapter would literally be all about the very thing I considered quitting the book for.
Overall reading this, I feel less alone and have more hope. I feel less anxious and bad about feeling anxious. I feel like "Anxiety" AKA the mind overworking can be a superpower when harnessed in a healthy way. So far so helpful and validating.
reflective
slow-paced
I was unprepared for the winding in and out of Sarah’s life. Part essay, part vignettes, part research we wander around her own navigation of depression, anxiety, and bipolar. My own anxiety was going crazy trying to figure out a structure, when I should have just let go and go on the ride. Which, incidentally, is the message of the book. Radical acceptance of what is in yourself and learning to let go. It wasn’t what I expected it to be and probably won’t read again. I struggled with the idea put forth that you should stop taking your medication. It seems dangerous and irresponsible to put out there into print.
I wrote down some things. Enjoyed the parts where she talked about the big things the people said that helped her. Things like anxiety is like feeling like you have to throw up but not having a mouth. It was a guy who wrote a book about depression. Maybe I will meditate now. Ha.
4.5 for an interesting writing style and lots of thought provoking content.
There was so much here. It was such a dense read. Took me a month or two to work through this one. Also a slow burn, it starts out with a lot of science and statistics but levels out into more personal anecdotes that were more relatable. Overall a super good read, pulled a lot from it that I can carry into my every day life and also a lot I'm able to share with others around me that have chronic and debilitating anxiety.
emotional
funny
hopeful
sad
tense
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Minor: Suicide attempt