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I Don't Want To Be Crazy
by Samantha Schutz
This book chronicles the author's struggles with anxiety disorder during her collage years. It is written in a poem format with short choppy thoughts.
Samantha leaves her home for collage and is instantly plagued with anxiety attacks. She lives in constant terror of when the next attack will come. When they do come there is nothing she can do but hide in the bathroom and wait it out. They follow her all through her life. They come with her to Europe and new jobs.
I think that this book portrays anxiety really well. The fear of never knowing when the next one will be and how it will tear you apart is pictured well. But the book never really grabbed me. In fact I found it boring. I do understand that it is a memoir and everything is true but I was really craving the main character to do something. It just seemed that the same thing was always happening and Samantha never did anything. Sure she went to psychiatrists and got medication but thats all she did. I know there isn't much you can do in real life but it made a really boring story.
If you want to learn more about anxiety attacks, what causes them, and how they affect people, I would recommend this book. But if your looking for a new book like Ellen Hopkin's I wouldn't look here.
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Samantha leaves her home for collage and is instantly plagued with anxiety attacks. She lives in constant terror of when the next attack will come. When they do come there is nothing she can do but hide in the bathroom and wait it out. They follow her all through her life. They come with her to Europe and new jobs.
I think that this book portrays anxiety really well. The fear of never knowing when the next one will be and how it will tear you apart is pictured well. But the book never really grabbed me. In fact I found it boring. I do understand that it is a memoir and everything is true but I was really craving the main character to do something. It just seemed that the same thing was always happening and Samantha never did anything. Sure she went to psychiatrists and got medication but thats all she did. I know there isn't much you can do in real life but it made a really boring story.
If you want to learn more about anxiety attacks, what causes them, and how they affect people, I would recommend this book. But if your looking for a new book like Ellen Hopkin's I wouldn't look here.
www.anibelle.blogspot.com