The Age of Anxiety. Fears, hopes, neuroses, and the search for inner peace

What is this book about
Chronic stress is a distinctive feature of our era, and anxiety became a kind of cultural phenomenon of modernity. Each sixth person in the world in one or another period of life suffers from neurotic disorders. Scott Sticks, knowing all the variations of phobias and depression on his own experience, began to look for ways to overcome them from the ten years, and then thought about this problem in a universal scale. What is the cause of anxiety - in genes, peculiarities of brain activity, environment or traumatic events? How to get rid of neurosis, fears, insomnia and panic attacks? How do the antidepressants and tranquilizers work and how effective are? Is it possible to finally manage your anxiety and turn it for yourself? The basis of the book - errors and achieve biochemistry and neurobiology, genetics and psychopharmacology, psychotherapy and psychiatry. And the main, striking and shocking personal experience. This book is a tense and exciting history of the struggle of a person for himself.

Why the book is worth reading
International bestseller. Awards: A Washington Post Notable Book, a Seattle Times Best Book of the Year.
Brilliant and detailed research on one of the most pressing topics of humanity in the 21st century.
Easy and easy, at the same time deeply and seriously, the stossy affects all the verge of the theme of anxiety: chronic stress, depression, issues of genetics, environment and education, development of medical approaches and changing public views.
Another 30 years ago, anxiety simply did not exist as a clinical category, and now is the most common of officially classified mental diseases in the United States, ahead of even depression and other affective disorders in this regard