Anxiety
by The School of Life
Essays on the varieties of anxiety and where they come from: childhood, the news, the body, work, status, death, and what reduces them: perspective, humour, friendship, acceptance. It is a thoughtful companion, not a treatment, and it says so.
Read it if…
you want to understand your anxiety better than you want to eliminate it.
Skip it if…
you need clinical help; this is not that, and it says so.
Three things you will actually use
- Anxiety is the price of imagination.
- Most dreaded outcomes are survivable.
- Perspective and company reduce what reasoning cannot.
Do this first
Read the essay on the sources of anxiety and name yours.
Our verdict
A companion, not a treatment.
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