Hi, Anxiety: Life With a Bad Case of Nerves Audiobook (Free)

Joining the ranks of such acclaimed accounts as Manic, Human brain burning, and Monkey Mind, a deeply personal, funny, and sometimes painful look at anxiety and its own influence from writer and commentator Kat Kinsman.

Sense anxious? Can’t rest because the human brain won’t prevent recycling thoughts? Struggling to make a decision because you’re as well scared you’ll make the wrong one? You’re not alone.

In Hi, Anxiety, beloved food writer, editor, and commentator Kat Kinsman expands over the high profile pieces she about Hi, Anxiety: Existence With a Poor Case of Nerves wrote for CNN.com about despair, and its own wicked cousin, anxiety. Taking us back to her adolescence, when she was identified as having despair at fourteen, Kat speaks eloquently with pathos and laughter about her skin picking, hands flapping, “nervousness” that produced her the receiver of several a severe taunt. With her mom also gripped by depressive disorder and medical issues throughout her life, Kat found live in a constant state of unease-that she’d fail, that she’d never find like . that she would end up exactly like her mother.

Now, as a successful media character, Kat still battles stress and anxiety every day. That stress and anxiety manifests in strange, and deeply personal methods. But mainly because she found when she began to reveal her problems, Kat is not alone in feeling like the basic act of departing the house, or obtaining a haircut can be crippling. And even though regular medication, counseling, an effective career and a content marriage have brought her relief, the illness, because that’s what nervousness is, remains.

Discovering how millions are affected anxiety, Hi, Anxiety is definitely a clarion demand everyone-but especially women-struggling with this problem. Though she is a solid advocate for looking for medical involvement, Kinsman implores those suffering to come out of the shadows-to talk about their fight openly and honestly. With laughter, bravery, and writing that brings bestsellers like Laurie Notaro and Jenny Lawson to mind, Hi, Anxiousness tackles a hard subject with amazing sophistication.