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

2.0

There is a lot about this book that I appreciated and found incredibly potent, mostly the candid approach to mental health and attempting to be open and honest. HOWEVER, peppering statements of 'it's only my approach' gets belied by the (sometimes quite possibly damaging) phrases of 'medication doesn't work', 'anxiety makes you fat'. This book itself doesn't pretend to be the font of all knowledge, and for that I could forgive the anecdotal evidence if not for the editor's choice of quotes on the cover of this edition where the reviewers purport it to be scientific. Close but no cigar.