Monkey Mind - Daniel Smith

Monkey Mind

By Daniel Smith

  • Release Date: 2012-07-03
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Score: 4
4
From 178 Ratings
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Description

Daniel Smith’s Monkey Mind is the stunning articulation of what it is like to live with anxiety. As he travels through anxiety’s demonic layers, Smith defangs the disorder with great humor and evocatively expresses its self-destructive absurdities and painful internal coherence. Aaron Beck, the most influential doctor in modern psychotherapy, says that “Monkey Mind does for anxiety what William Styron’s Darkness Visible did for depression.” Neurologist and bestselling writer Oliver Sacks says, “I read Monkey Mind with admiration for its bravery and clarity….I broke out into explosive laughter again and again.” Here, finally, comes relief and recognition to all those who want someone to put what they feel, or what their loved ones feel, into words.

Reviews

  • Monkey Mind

    5
    By SugarCreekgal
    Really accurate account of generalized anxiety, panic anxiety and existential worry. This book would be helpful, especially for men. Written in first person, the author achieves recovery as he takes leadership with his anxious parts. He discovers the great paradoxes of lfe: when we stop fearing and fighting anxiety, it subsides. When life is lived without a need for perfection, one relaxes and performs better.

  • Monkey Mind

    5
    By scenius
    One of the most honest and raw accounts of what living with chronic anxiety is like. Smith offers the anxiety sufferer's paradoxical experience of desperation and hopefulness in a personal story that will ring true to anyone who has suffered anxious ruminations and the countless physical and psychological symptoms they stimulate. Fascinating, heartfelt, and truly helpful. A breakthrough in the non-self help, self help book.

  • Give it go

    3
    By trosem
    It was, at times, more factual about the cause/symptom/treatment of anxiety that it became dry and taxing to reading... But generally, I enjoyed his personal account of living with anxiety. At times in the book you felt such great empathy for the writer and others were a laugh, as I could relate to particular symptoms of anxiety. It was deeply personal, triumphantly honest and I believe very helpful to those treading the turbulent waters of anxiety. Although not on top of my favorites, because I expected less facts and more humor, I think the book is worth a go.

  • Monkey Mind

    1
    By Easroak
    Happy it's over and one one died

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