My age of anxiety

By Scott Stossel

Subjects: Editors, nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2014-01-26, New York Times bestseller, Tranquilizing drugs, Chemotherapy, Popular works, Epidemiology, Anxiety disorders, Treatment, Health and Wellbeing, Mental health, Social aspects, Anxiety

Description: 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.