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3.61 AVERAGE
3.61 AVERAGE
more of a self-help thats not super helpful than I would have liked
emotional
inspiring
reflective
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One of the best books I have read about living with anxiety as a highly - functioning person.
challenging
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
I find it hard to review someone's feelings on their own mental health journey. As someone newly diagnosed with OCD, I very much appreciated Wilson's candour about her own experiences and her triggers. I found a lot of the research to be interesting and varied (science vs natural) and I think that there are a lot of tips in here I can use/adapt.
I found this one hard to read, confusing at points and anxiety inducing at others. It felt more memoir than helpful at times and verging on irresponsible in some of the advice given. I felt uncomfortable reading her views on and use of different cultural ways of healing and seeing anxiety.
Yes there were some ok points but im not sure i gained enough from the book to warant anything more than 2 stars. Given the uncomfortable feeling its left me with I don't think ill be Book Fairying it as planed either. I feel it needs a fair few content warning or trigger warnings on it to be perfectly honest.
On further reflection it only gets 1 star. It's hindered more than helped me at a time when i was really hoping a book on anxiety might give me something helpful. All I was left with was hightened anxiety and alot of confusion as to how this book has done so well...
Yes there were some ok points but im not sure i gained enough from the book to warant anything more than 2 stars. Given the uncomfortable feeling its left me with I don't think ill be Book Fairying it as planed either. I feel it needs a fair few content warning or trigger warnings on it to be perfectly honest.
On further reflection it only gets 1 star. It's hindered more than helped me at a time when i was really hoping a book on anxiety might give me something helpful. All I was left with was hightened anxiety and alot of confusion as to how this book has done so well...
I would describe book as "jumbled." It's been written seemingly with the notion of inducing anxiety in its reader. There are chapters that don't quite join together with any theme, plus side notes, plus subheaders, plus strange typographic choices. Eeek. That said, there are many parts that are illuminating/helpful. I've never read a book all about anxiety before, and I could relate to a lot of it.
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Like Wilson, I suffer from a pile of psychological diagnoses, as well as some undiagnosed physical ailment (likely related to my constant state of anxiety over the past 30 years). I also read loads of self-help books, I’m interested in Ayurveda, avoid sugar, and love the work of French existentialists. My life is very different from the authors but I found her easy to relate to.
This book didn’t change my life or the anxiety that comes with it, but reading it was enjoyable enough. Plenty of references to other writers and philosophers that anxious self-helpers will recognize. There were a couple mentions of “fatness” as a negative quality, which made me uncomfortable, especially after hearing that the author also suffered from an eating disorder. A handful of other instances which gave me that cringey, eye-roll feeling due to the authors obvious privilege, bias and lack of expertise. I’d look at this work as an account of her personal experience with anxiety rather than suggestions for what readers should do if they suffer from anxiety.
This book didn’t change my life or the anxiety that comes with it, but reading it was enjoyable enough. Plenty of references to other writers and philosophers that anxious self-helpers will recognize. There were a couple mentions of “fatness” as a negative quality, which made me uncomfortable, especially after hearing that the author also suffered from an eating disorder. A handful of other instances which gave me that cringey, eye-roll feeling due to the authors obvious privilege, bias and lack of expertise. I’d look at this work as an account of her personal experience with anxiety rather than suggestions for what readers should do if they suffer from anxiety.
emotional
funny
informative
medium-paced
This book was okay. Some of it was kind of whack (particularly the Ayurvedic and dietary recommendation sections), but a lot of it was reassuring and comfortably messy.
I think Sarah Wilson doesn't do much to acknowledge the place of privilege she is coming from in terms of being a TV host and a model. That being said, I took a lot from this book in the way that she has science to back up everything she writes about. I loved reading the different methods she has tried to calm her mind, and I loved how open and honest she was about her setbacks and hesitations. I have photos of so many blurbs from this book that I know I will return to.