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My age of anxiety : fear, hope, dread, and the search for peace of mind / Scott Stossel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 400 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780307269874 (hardcover)
  • 0307269876 (hardcover)
  • 9780307390608 (pbk.)
  • 0307390608 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.85/22 23
LOC classification:
  • RC531 .S758 2013
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Book Book Sonoma Academy Library 616.85/22 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 09/07/2015 500215
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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.

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