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3.61 AVERAGE
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Anxiety is the defining feature of our digital age, but what does it mean to live with 'clinical' anxiety? If you've got it you know, if you don't got it it's kind of like having 'Zorba the Greek' stuck in your head on repeat (for the younger crowd, that'd be this track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iJJI5viPVI )
It's a good tune. Once or twice, it's fun. It's got its place - high energy, jump, step, clap, yelp, woo!
But it's nonstop, this anxiety song. All day, every day, and not just places you'd expect it like out on the dance floor at your best friend's big fat Greek wedding; the anxiety song is playing in the grocery store, in the car, in the bathtub, in the bedroom, in the morning, in the evening, in the wee hours that blur evening and morning when you'd so like to be sleeping - high energy, jump, step, clap, yelp, woo! It is exhausting, but try and rest and the volume gets louder, louder, louder.
And that's clinical anxiety. It's the absolutely normal and typical feeling of anxiety run amok, too escalated for too long.
3 stars. Sarah Wilson gets it. I don't click with her tone, but she gets it. And I got some inspiration for little changes to make for big cumulative results.
It's a good tune. Once or twice, it's fun. It's got its place - high energy, jump, step, clap, yelp, woo!
But it's nonstop, this anxiety song. All day, every day, and not just places you'd expect it like out on the dance floor at your best friend's big fat Greek wedding; the anxiety song is playing in the grocery store, in the car, in the bathtub, in the bedroom, in the morning, in the evening, in the wee hours that blur evening and morning when you'd so like to be sleeping - high energy, jump, step, clap, yelp, woo! It is exhausting, but try and rest and the volume gets louder, louder, louder.
And that's clinical anxiety. It's the absolutely normal and typical feeling of anxiety run amok, too escalated for too long.
3 stars. Sarah Wilson gets it. I don't click with her tone, but she gets it. And I got some inspiration for little changes to make for big cumulative results.
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At times this felt like a book review of other books and writings (holler David Brookes’ Road to Character finally someone who loves this book as much as me!), but I found a lot of things in here genuinely helpful. Here is a rambling list I may edit later not in order of which it appears in the book: people who get spirals instead of panic attacks, quitting sugar, I learned a lot about meditation practice in a way that actually made me want to start, turning anxiety into excitement is an easier conversion than trying to calm down, the concept of people who are life naturals, and just the function of anxious people evolutionarily. Books like these really help me accept that I’ll never “win” or one day be “anxiety free” but they teach me there’s still a good life that comes from acceptance
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I popped this audiobook on after finding it from a quick Libby filter to find something about anxiety and give myself space to process the tension I’m holding from my second week at my job. It’s less evidence-based than I like for my health books but fine for a personal essay. I won’t finish it, but it was nice for one night. The Aussie author reads it, and her voice is pleasant.
A decent read at first, but after a while, it just felt too long. Too much randomness and jumping through autobiographical parts for my liking. Good message, but I had to skip a few pages to get through.
I really appreciate the authenticity of Sarah Wilson in talking about how her own mental health has been affected by depression and anxiety. She doesn't sugarcoat (pun intended) the downsides. It has been a few years since I've read this, but I'd read it again.
A candid and personal account of Ms. Wilson's life with anxiety, including what has and hasn't worked for her over the years. I appreciated the personal, non-clinical yet researched and evidence-based narrative.
There are parts of this that are illuminating and then there is the incessant sugar free agenda and advice to accept your anxiety with the same strategies billionaires use?? I can’t afford a month long sabbatical but I can afford icecream!