| Talking in the book about her experience with social anxiety, she has hilarious stories to tell from her past sufferings as well as tip and tricks of how she manages her condition day to day. Claire has many useful facts woven within her story, such as about how serotonin levels can be depleted by certain caffeine's or how your anxiety levels can spike due to consuming too much of it too quickly. The importance of finding the right therapist and whether you can work with them as well as cost and long or short term affording the treatment best for you and weaving a pathway to get through and overcome your problems e.g. take CBT then progress to Exposure Therapy once good progress has been made. Claire also raises a great point in that when we are looking back, we can see traits of anxiety in our younger selves as we grow through school. For me and Claire alike we are both more introverted and both hated being spotted in class and feared putting up our hands. It's great to realise someone else gets it even now we aren't of that age! Claire and her university tales are a great example of how stressed any student can get trying to navigate a social life and exams etc without even the use of alcohol to relieve the pain and when you can drink, it won't help the anxiety you feel but fuel it more. Talking of letting go of old pain, emotional or physical memories of it and liberating yourself and your mind from reliving the anxiety of the time you felt years ago, I particularly love her recommendation of listening to Frozen's Let It Go at the same time. Too right! Claire has written a witty, informative and deeply important book for anyone else who suffers anxiety, wants to learn more on the topic or just somebody who maybe needs a deep but funny at times read too! Many thanks to Jessica Kingsley publishers for sending me a copy to review! | ||
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