Anxiety for Beginners

Eleanor Morgan has written and interviewed extensively for the Guardian, the Observer, The Times, the Independent, GQ, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and the Believer. She worked as Senior Editor at VICE UK, where she helped to manage the output of an ever-expanding editorial team at one of the fastest-moving media organizations in the world, and has become one of the sharpest, best connected young voices in today's media landscape.

Unit - PART ONE: SOMETHING'S WRONG
Chapter - 1: A Tornado in a Toilet Cubicle
Chapter - 2: 'Two Litres of Pus'
Chapter - 3: Taking Root
Chapter - 4: Cracking
Chapter - 5: Paddling
Chapter - 6: A Mind on Fire
Chapter - 7: 'A Total F***er'
Unit - PART TWO: WHAT IS ANXIETY
Chapter - 8: A Price Tag on Freedom
Chapter - 9: Appropriate Responses
Chapter - 10: Computers in Skin Suits
Chapter - 11: 'Flavour'
Chapter - 12: More Than a (Gut) Feeling
Chapter - 13: Diagnosis: Shame
Chapter - 14: Giving the Beast a Name
Unit - PART THREE: WHY DOES ANXIETY HAPPEN?
Chapter - 15: Blame, Time and Place
Chapter - 16: Betty
Chapter - 17: Grey Matters
Chapter - 18: Grey Matters
Chapter - 19: Female Hormones: A Bloody Mess
Chapter - 20: Calming the Tide
Chapter - 21: Needles, Eggs and Freezers
Chapter - 22: Blue Curtains
Chapter - 23: Stigma, Language and How We Codify Things
Chapter - 24: Words and Pictures: How the Media Feeds Our Heads
Chapter - 25: Faces and Names
Chapter - 26: Thinking About What Other People Think
Unit - PART FOUR: WHAT CAN WE DO?
Chapter - 27: Drugs, DSM, Dilemmas
Chapter - 28: Asking For Help: What Do We Get?
Chapter - 29: Helping Ourselves: Where Do We Start?
Chapter - 30: Mindfulness: A Mindblowing Industry?
Chapter - 31: Exercise, Trees and Hippocampi
Chapter - 32: Pamela
Chapter - 33: Helping Someone With Anxiety
Chapter - 34: Future Treatment


Acknowledgements - i: Acknowledgements
Section - ii: Bibliography
Index - iii: Index