Mimi Geerges Conversation with Scott Stossel "My Age of Anxiety"

Thirty-five years ago, anxiety didn't exist as a diagnostic category. Today, it's the most common form of mental illness. Drawing on his own long-standing battle with anxiety, Scott Stossel, My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind presents the history and efforts to understand an affliction that is pervasive yet often misunderstood.

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"It's a misfiring fight or flight response - that is, either there's nothing truly to be afraid of or, your response is disproportionate to the threat at hand. And you end up marinating in a stew of stress hormones that makes you feel physically and cognitively awful." -Scott Stossel
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