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\At 10 I was diagnosed with extreme anxiety. Thirty years later, I am still, all too often, a quivering, quaking, neurotic wreck.\
Although American journalist and author Scott Stossel has maintained a successful career and family life, there are times when he can barely function. Millions around the world share his condition. In his book, \"My Age of Anxiety\", he looks at the causes. Even when not actively afflicted by acute episodes of anxiety, he is buffeted by worry: about his health and his family members' health; about finances; about work; about the rattle in his car and the dripping in his basement; about the encroachment of old age and the inevitability of death; in short, about everything and nothing.
Journal Article
More and More Children Are Feeling Anxious. This Graphic Novelist Is Trying to Help
“Guts,” Raina Telgemeier’s warm, funny and realistic new graphic memoir, hits home for parents and children trying to climb out of the abyss of worry.
Newspaper Article
Whose Life Is It?
Scott Stossel reviews \"Biography: A Brief History,\" a book by Nigel Hamilton.
Book Review
Antidepressant debate: Should we still listen to Prozac?
The book made Dr. [Peter D. Kramer] famous -- or at least famous for an academic psychiatrist. People referred to him as \"that Prozac man\" or \"Dr. Prozac.\" But he didn't want that label to define him, so while he continued to write about mental health in books like \"Against Depression\" and a brisk biography of Sigmund Freud, he stayed out of \"the antidepressant wars\" for more than decade. Or perhaps the more apt metaphor is this one: Like Victor Frankenstein, who created a monster, Dr. Kramer realized he ought to rein in some of the potentially damaging concepts he'd loosed on the world. In \"Listening to Prozac,\" Dr. Kramer had coined two terms that got absorbed into conversations about the morality of medicating depression: \"better than well\" and \"cosmetic psychopharmacology.\" Both speak to his misgivings about the widespread prescription of antidepressants. He had expressed philosophical reservations about the consequences of medicating people who were not suffering from clinical levels of emotional distress, and who were in effect using the new class of antidepressants as performance-enhancing drugs, to make themselves more confident at work or more sociable at parties. Were Prozac and its ilk the new opiate of the masses? He burrows deep into the studies that ostensibly show the limited efficacy of antidepressants -- which makes \"Ordinarily Well,\" in large part, a book about research methodology, an exploration of the merits of the double-blind controlled study and the meaning and practice of \"evidence-based medicine.\" He offers explanations of \"effect sizes\" and \"standard deviations,\" and dives into an alphabet soup of acronyms to explore the differences between, for instance, the HAM-D17 and the HAM-D6 (two versions of a widely used depression-rating scale developed in the 1970s that had helped establish the effectiveness of imipramine, an early antidepressant in what's known as the tricyclic class of drugs).
Newspaper Article
Should We Still Listen to Prozac? Peter D. Kramer Jumps Back Into the Antidepressant Debate
Do antidepressants work? More often than not, argues the author of \"Listening to Prozac.\"
Newspaper Article