My Age of Anxiety : Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind

from kidzdoc

Scott Stossel has had a rewarding and successful life on a superficial glance. He graduated from Harvard, wrote a well regarded biography of the politician and JFK aide Sargent Shriver, previously served as the executive editor of The American Prospect, is currently the editor of The Atlantic mag...

from coloradogirl14

Normally with my reviews, I try to objectively look at a book without letting my personal preferences cloud my ultimate goal, which is to explain why readers might enjoy this book, and to match it up with several readalike options. But with this book, it's wrapped extremely closely around my pers...

from seasonsoflove

Every once in a while, a book comes along into your hands right when you need it, and this was one of those books. Exploring not only the historical and scientific backgrounds and changing beliefs regarding anxiety, Stossel also shares his personal stories with his and his family's anxiety disord...

from bobbieharv

A very courageous book . Stossel writes so openly and disarmingly about his anxious episodes with, at times, such an amazing sense of humor that I laughed out loud, while at the same time feeling tremendous compassion for him. At times I skimmed the dense sections of research which I imagine were...

from DetailMuse

This book had been catching my eye but I had been looking past it, thinking (per the title) it was a memoir of one guy's experience with anxiety. But when I discovered that the “guy” is editor of The Atlantic magazine, I figured it might be a substantive memoir. And, not too far into it, I realiz...