
My Age of Anxiety
Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind
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Narrated by:
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Michael Goldstrom
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By:
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Scott Stossel
A riveting, revelatory, and moving account of the author’s struggles with anxiety, and of the history of efforts by scientists, philosophers, and writers to understand the condition.
As recently as thirty-five years ago, anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category. Today, it is the most common form of officially classified mental illness. Scott Stossel gracefully guides us across the terrain of an affliction that is pervasive yet too often misunderstood.
Drawing on his own long-standing battle with anxiety, Stossel presents an astonishing history, at once intimate and authoritative, of the efforts to understand the condition from medical, cultural, philosophical, and experiential perspectives. He ranges from the earliest medical reports of Galen and Hippocrates, through later observations by Robert Burton and Søren Kierkegaard, to the investigations by great nineteenth-century scientists, such as Charles Darwin, William James, and Sigmund Freud, as they began to explore its sources and causes, to the latest research by neuroscientists and geneticists. Stossel reports on famous individuals who struggled with anxiety, as well as on the afflicted generations of his own family.
His portrait of anxiety reveals not only the emotion’s myriad manifestations and the anguish anxiety produces but also the countless psychotherapies, medications, and other (often outlandish) treatments that have been developed to counteract it. Stossel vividly depicts anxiety’s human toll - its crippling impact, its devastating power to paralyze - while at the same time exploring how those who suffer from it find ways to manage and control it.My Age of Anxiety is learned and empathetic, humorous and inspirational, offering the listener great insight into the biological, cultural, and environmental factors that contribute to the affliction.
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It's an encyclopedic and engrossing story that is sometimes endearingly
Comic. Mr Stossel will remain a giant in this field by sharing his entire personal story - we can never thank him enough.
Enthralling Magnum Opus
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Fascinating read!
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as good as they get.
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Best book I have ever read to date, Period.
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Good book about Anxiety
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Exceeded expectations
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I'm glad for the chance this book has given me to better understand pain, anxiety, depression from the longitudinal, anecdotal, and individual perspectives-- and from my own.
I feel much better equipped to continue learning how to process and manage my own stresses and stress episodes.
Cheers for Scott Stossel
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Extremely happy with this book
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Definitely. I have a relative who struggles with depression and anxiety, and this book gives me much more empathy and understanding for people living with these afflictions.make no mistake, this book is not just a clinical treatise; it is very personal in its depiction of finding relief from debilitating anxiety of flying, vomiting, and performance.
What does Michael Goldstrom bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
I enjoyed this narration immensely. It neither added unnecessary "pep" nor lulled me to sleep. It was just a good straight-up reading of this book.Any additional comments?
Well worth your time and credit!Complex, informative, personal
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I especially liked his exploration of the history of mental health. He digs into the timelines of various classifications of diseases as well as the introductions of certain psychiatric medications. After reading, it seems fair to say that modern society and its health care system is, at the very least, not actually solving the problem of mental illness.
I’m deducting one star, however, because, in the end, I’m not totally sure what the conclusion is here. There’s a lot of good content on mental health, but it doesn’t really reach a “clean” endpoint. It’s also a bit long; I feel like if it were cut down a bit, it would’ve been even more effective.
Though it isn’t my first recommendation in the genre, it’s still a good, if not very good, read. If you have the time and the interest (and I stress the time part), check it out.
-Brian Sachetta
Author of “Get Out of Your Head”
Pretty good, just long and somewhat scattered
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