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A review by mouseyhare
Own It.: Make Your Anxiety Work for You by Caroline Foran
3.0
I was... going to give this two stars and then went one up.
Plus sides: This is from lived experience, with someone who suffers from a pretty severe anxiety disorder. There is a lot of good advice here even for people who don't have a clinical anxiety disorder.
Down sides: Some weird stigmatization of asylums and mental health facilities. A really strange attitude toward medication in general. And I don't know why there was a big treatise about Traditional Chinese Medicine at the end.
Also, why were all of the curse words c*nsored?
Anyways, I think I was hoping this would be about reverse engineering anxiety rather than "these things help fix it, but I am not a doctor." She says she isn't aiming to cure it but it feels that way anyways?
But there were some good things in it that I will definitely be trying to consider (like the "mind traps" in chapter 7), which are more what I was expecting the whole thing to be. Would probably be more helpful to someone else though.
Plus sides: This is from lived experience, with someone who suffers from a pretty severe anxiety disorder. There is a lot of good advice here even for people who don't have a clinical anxiety disorder.
Down sides: Some weird stigmatization of asylums and mental health facilities. A really strange attitude toward medication in general. And I don't know why there was a big treatise about Traditional Chinese Medicine at the end.
Also, why were all of the curse words c*nsored?
Anyways, I think I was hoping this would be about reverse engineering anxiety rather than "these things help fix it, but I am not a doctor." She says she isn't aiming to cure it but it feels that way anyways?
But there were some good things in it that I will definitely be trying to consider (like the "mind traps" in chapter 7), which are more what I was expecting the whole thing to be. Would probably be more helpful to someone else though.