My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind

This audiobook is narrated by artificial intelligence. It was developed specifically for reading text, can learn, and constantly gets better.

Chronic stress is a hallmark of our age, and anxiety has become a kind of cultural phenomenon of the modern world. Every sixth person in the world suffers from neurotic disorders at one time or another. Scott Stossel, knowing from personal experience all the variations of phobias and depression, from the age of ten began looking for ways to overcome them—and then considered the problem on a human scale. What causes anxiety—genes, brain activity patterns, environment, or traumatic events? How to get rid of neuroses, fears, insomnia, and panic attacks? How do antidepressants and tranquilizers work, and how effective are they? Can you finally manage your anxiety and turn it to your advantage?

The book is based on the mistakes and achievements of biochemistry and neurobiology, genetics and psychopharmacology, psychotherapy and psychiatry. And, above all, it offers astonishing—and shocking—personal experience. This book is an intense and gripping story of a person’s struggle to find himself.