Little Panic

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In the vein of bestselling memoirs about mental illness like Andrew Solomon s Noonday Demon, Sarah Hepola s Blackout, and Daniel Smith s Monkey Mind comes a gorgeously immersive, immediately relatable, and brilliantly funny memoir about living life on the razor s edge of panic.The world never made any sense to Amanda Stern how could she trust time to keep flowing, the sun to rise, gravity to hold her feet to the ground, or even her own body to work the way it was supposed to Deep down, she knows that there s something horribly wrong with her, some defect that her siblings and friends don t have to cope with.Growing up in the 1970s and 80s in New York, Amanda experiences the magic and madness of life through the filter of unrelenting panic Plagued with fear that her friends and family will be taken from her if she s not watching that her mother will die, or forget she has children and just move away Amanda treats every parting as her last Shuttled between a barefoot bohemian life with her mother in Greenwich Village, and a sanitized, stricter world of affluence uptown with her father, Amanda has little she can depend on And when Etan Patz disappears down the block from their MacDougal Street home, she can t help but believe that all her worst fears are about to come true Tenderly delivered and expertly structured, Amanda Stern s memoir is a document of the transformation of New York City and a deep, personal, and comedic account of the trials and errors of seeing life through a very unusual lens. Best Download [ Little Panic ] Author [ Amanda Stern ] – kino-fada.fr Wow Not a brilliant literary word, but the first word that flowed from my hand as I started to write this review Little Panic is a brilliant, articulate, honest, and heartbreaking memoir about living with crippling anxiety As detailed in her book, Stern exhibited symptoms of an anxiety disorder from a very yo...Wow, after finishing this book I feel like I need to take a deep breath As someone who suffers from an anxiety disorder, I found much of what Amanda feels thinks experiences mimics my own life Her story in many ways isn t my own, but so much resonated Amanda spent years of her life in the depths of panic while doctors searched for the wrong answers Finally, at the age of 25, she gains a name for what plagues her It s not a cure, but there s strength in a name Amanda tells her story alterna Wow, after finishing this book I feel like I need to take a deep breath As someone who suffers from an anxiety disorder, I found much of what Amanda feels thinks experiences mimics my own life Her story in many ways isn t my own, but so much resonated Amanda spen...As someone who deals with severe anxiety and was not able to put a name on it for most of their childhood, this book broke me Reading Amanda s story of a cry for safety and to be understood was something I felt deeply in every page, and could relate to with her breathtaking vulnerability Her early years are spent trying to find her safe person, someone to give her name to all of these consuming thoughts, while her adult years are spent trying to find someone to accept it Those of us who suffe As someone who deals with severe anxiety and was not able to put a name on it for most of their childhood, this book broke me Reading Amanda s story of a cry for safety and to be understood was something I felt deeply in every page, and could relate to with her breathtaking vulnerability Her early years are spent trying to find her safe person, someone to give her name to all of these consuming thoughts, while her adult years are spent trying to find someone to accept it Those of us...Couldn t put this down Brilliant, heartbreaking, riveting portrayal of growing up in NYC with an undiagnosed panic disorder I was completely immersed in Amanda s world Her descriptions of being a child struggling to understand and interact with the world around her were incredibly evocative, as were her descriptions of life growing up in the Village during the 70 s 80 s Strongly recommended to anyone who has ever dealt with anxiety or known someone who has, and to anyone else, because it s a Couldn t put this down Brilliant, heartbreaking, riveting portrayal of growing up in NYC with an undiagnosed panic disorder I was completely immersed in Amanda...A STUNNING, evocative story about the meaning of living with an undiagnosed panic disorder, LITTLE PANIC grips and discomfits in the best way Stern s honesty is compelling, her humor always spot on She is a consummate New Yorker from the last moments when New York was still gritty and still had that thing called a soul and kids ran around unfettered by adult supervision At turns moving, sad, funny and always enter...I m an anxious person, and though I ve never had a full blown panic attack, much of what Stern recounts from her childhood sounds familiar The anxious, dreadful thoughts that run through little Amanda s mind made my heart break Amazing that this girl, who lived in a nice house with a family who loved her, would bob along in panic filled waters for years, undiagnosed and untreated How she turned her life around is truly inspirational Stern mentions the disappearance of Etan Patz, a kid from t I m an anxious person, and though I ve never had a full blown panic attack, much of what Stern recounts from her childhood sounds familiar The anxious, dreadful thoughts that run through little Amanda s mind made my heart break Amazing that this girl, who lived in a nice house with a family who loved her, would bob along in panic filled waters for years, undiagnosed and untreated How she turned her life around is truly inspirational Stern mentions the dis...received as an ARC Can t wait to readAn insightful and incredibly vulnerable look into Amanda s life Very appreciative that authors like Amanda are willing to share their stories to help those who suffer similarly from anxiety.This is a must read for anyone who suffers with anxiety It is brave, brilliant, and honest I could relate in so many ways that my dog got tired of me screaming Me too This book should have been written by the the psychiatric community years ago, thankfully Amanda Stern has finally w...Wow I have some mild anxiety, and I know and love people who havesevere anxiety and panic attacks, so I guess I thought I had some idea about the struggle of severe anxiety panic sufferers, but this was a complete eye opener Also as a children s librarian and just as a person probably , her childhood experience just broke my heart I couldn t stop thinking of all our small patrons and what their internal liv...

Little Panic
  • 19 July 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 400 pages
  • 1538711923
  • Amanda Stern
  • Little Panic