My age of anxiety :
Stossel, Scott.
My age of anxiety : fear, hope, dread, and the search for peace of mind / Scott Stossel. - First edition. - viii, 400 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-383) and index.
The nature of anxiety -- What do we talk about when we talk about anxiety? -- A rumbling in the belly -- Performance anxiety -- A sack of enzymes -- A brief history of panic, or, how drugs created a new disorder -- Medication and the meaning of anxiety -- Separation anxiety -- Warriors and worriers: the genetics of anxiety -- Ages of anxiety -- Redemption -- Resilience.
The author recounts his lifelong battle with anxiety, showing the many manifestations of the disorder as well as the countless treatments that have been developed to counteract it, and provides a history of the efforts to understand this common form of mental illness.
9780307269874 (hardcover) 0307269876 (hardcover) 9780307390608 (pbk.) 0307390608 (pbk.)
2013006336
Stossel, Scott--Mental health.
Anxiety.
Anxiety--Chemotherapy.
Anxiety--Epidemiology.
Tranquilizing drugs--Social aspects.
RC531 / .S758 2013
616.85/22
My age of anxiety : fear, hope, dread, and the search for peace of mind / Scott Stossel. - First edition. - viii, 400 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-383) and index.
The nature of anxiety -- What do we talk about when we talk about anxiety? -- A rumbling in the belly -- Performance anxiety -- A sack of enzymes -- A brief history of panic, or, how drugs created a new disorder -- Medication and the meaning of anxiety -- Separation anxiety -- Warriors and worriers: the genetics of anxiety -- Ages of anxiety -- Redemption -- Resilience.
The author recounts his lifelong battle with anxiety, showing the many manifestations of the disorder as well as the countless treatments that have been developed to counteract it, and provides a history of the efforts to understand this common form of mental illness.
9780307269874 (hardcover) 0307269876 (hardcover) 9780307390608 (pbk.) 0307390608 (pbk.)
2013006336
Stossel, Scott--Mental health.
Anxiety.
Anxiety--Chemotherapy.
Anxiety--Epidemiology.
Tranquilizing drugs--Social aspects.
RC531 / .S758 2013
616.85/22