Little panic
Subtitle: dispatches from an anxious life
By: Amanda Stern
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9781538711927
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Mental health; Anxiety; Biography; Panic disorders; Anxiety in children; Patients; American Authors
Description: The ordinary world never made sense to Amanda, who grew up certain her friends and family would die or disappear if she quit watching them, compulsively treating every parting as a final good-bye. Shuttled between divorced parents, from a barefoot bohemian existence in Greenwich Village to a sanitized, stricter world uptown, this smart, sensitive little girl experienced life through the distorting lense of an undiagnosed panic disorder. Her darkly funny memoir is at once a love letter to 1970-80s New York City, a coming-of-age story of an anxious, unusually perceptive child, and a window into adult life and relationships lived on the razor's edge of panic.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page ix).
Table of contents: title: I am not a clock; title: Not the right kind of human; title: Maybe I am not a person; title: How to say what's wrong; title: The system of the world; title: Countdown to Karen Silkwood; title: The underside of perfect; title: My real family; title: Not-Melissa; title: Someone kicked the Earth; title: If time were a dog; title: Oh how we glowed; title: Scapegoat; title: Frankie Bird; title: Jinx; title: Yes, no, maybe, I don't know; title: Listen carefully and say exactly what I say; title: Normal-sized; title: A beautiful, gorgeous life; title: A stay-behind kid; title: The bright side; title: The drainpipe man; title: A word never means only one thing; title: A sense of rightness; title: Hunky dory; title: My life stained the world; title: I'm the test to solve; title: Everywhere I look, families; title: Anarchy; title: When I turn eighteen; title: What if I give birth to myself?; title: Who doesn't want to be in a play?; title: One right way to be a person; title: Homeless; title: I am a pinball machine; title: The system is the problem; title: The dread, the relief; title: Waiting to move on; title: The body; title: Waited my whole life to be normal; title: Forever Mama; title: Take care of the animals; title: Certainty; title: To be the same.