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Monkey Mind : A Memoir of Anxiety

9781439177310

Monkey Mind : A Memoir of Anxiety

  • ISBN 13:

    9781439177310

  • ISBN 10:

    1439177317

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 06/11/2013
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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Summary

A wildly acclaimed New York Timesbestseller, this uplifting, smart, and funny memoir provides hope and understanding to the 40 million Americans who suffer from anxiety disorders. For years, Daniel Smith suffered from bouts of acute anxiety, extended episodes without any apparent cause that seized control of his body and mind, leaving him an emotional wreck. Sleep was impossible and headaches and nausea haunted his days. Anxiety threatened his sanity and jeopardized his relationships. He had a prestigious job, a comfortable apartment, and caring friendsbut, according to his therapists, nothing seemed to be wrong. Smith was not alone. More than 40 million American adults suffer from some type of anxiety disorder, the country's most common psychiatric malady. As a nation, we spend more than $42 billion every year treating these disorders. Yet anxiety is rarely discussed in the media or in our homes, and we do our best to keep these perils inside our own heads. Now in paperback, Monkey Mindis the story of how one man finally learned to live withand laugh athis own anxiety issues. Smith shares his own hilarious and heart-wrenching story from his first severe episode at age sixteen to his discovery of the author Philip Roth, who made anxiety seem noble, to his first job, which nearly drove him to distraction, to his struggle to give up the endless cycle of hand-wringing angst in order to keep the love of his life. Through medication, endless psychoanalysis, self-imposed isolation, and meditation, Smith finally makes peace with his restless mind and becomes the husband and father he longs to be. Whether you suffer from clinical anxiety or an overdose of modern life in our "Age of Anxiety," Monkey Mind's combination of wit, candor, and serious advice will help you live in the moment instead of inside your own head.

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