My Mess is a bit of a life: Adventures in Anxiety

My Mess is a bit of a life: Adventures in Anxiety

Taschenbuch
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Beschreibung

'Funny, moving, insightful, vulnerable. A brave book and a brilliant read.' Miranda Hart

Multi-award-winning television writer and producer Georgia Pritchett knows a thing or two about anxiety.

From worrying about the monsters under her bed as a child (Were they comfy enough?), to embracing womanhood (One way of knowing you have crossed from girlhood to womanhood is that men stop furtively masturbating at you from bushes and start shouting things at you from cars. It's a beautiful moment) to being offered free gifts after an award ceremony (It was an excruciating experience. Mortifying) worry has accompanied her at every turn.

This memoir is a joyful reflection on just how to live - and sometimes even thrive (sometimes not) - with anxiety.
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Beiträge

2
Alle

Since this is a memoir I decided to not give it a rating but write down my thoughts. This book was not for me. I was expecting longer chapters about the author‘s every day experiences with anxiety, but instead I read several 1 to 3 page stories about her life. In most of them I couldn’t find indications of the author being anxious or worried. There was a lot written about her children, her partner, and her job as a writer in an industry that was and still largely is misogynistic. We read about her failures and how as a comedy writer no one thought her jokes were funny. But in the end she has multiple awards which I wouldn’t have expected after all her self deprecation. Then you are suddenly hit with her talking about how she doesn’t want to live anymore, which - again - was something I didn’t expect after every little story she told, none of which contained any mention of how her mental health was. In the end, I was expecting a lighthearted but serious memoir about living and managing anxiety in everyday life. Instead I read about an unfunny writer, her job experiences with people that someone outside the UK won’t know, her two children, and how she gets nosebleeds every time she is stressed.

4

i cannot believe a single person has experienced all of this

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