A review by mouse_runs_
First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A new conversation about anxiety by Sarah Wilson

4.0

There were big chunks of the book that really spoke to me and bits of advice and techniques I will take with me and use. I felt like she understood some of my anxiety in a way that nobody else has. However some of it bugged me. It jumps around on a timeline too much and I struggled to follow it. Some of the editing was bad. Some of the blanket statements about anxiety (like ‘anxiety makes you fat’) were irresponsible I think. I wish she’d acknowledge her privileges a bit more. Lots of her experiments with her anxiety aren’t available to most of us, and it read like a book for middle class white women in a lot of places.