Coward
Why We Get Anxious & What We Can Do About It
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Tim Clare
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Tim Clare
About this listen
Tim Clare has suffered from extreme anxiety and panic attacks for a decade. At their worst, his attacks would see him curled on the floor, screaming at his wife for help. This was something the couple just got used to and were able to manage, until they became parents. With the arrival of Tim's daughter came a new wave of extreme anxiety, triggered by the knowledge that his own mental ill-health could be negatively impacting his child.
It was at this point that Tim made a promise to himself—that he would try everything he could to get better, every method and medicine. In Coward, Tim explores all the possible treatments for anxiety, from SRIs to hypnosis, from running to extreme diets. He interviews experts in each field and becomes a guinea pig, testing their methods on himself. By the end of the audiobook, Tim will know what helps him and what doesn't, and what might help others, but most of all, he'll come to rethink anxiety and ask all of us to do the same.
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- bruceold
- 03-04-24
Brilliant, vulnerable and insightful
I love Tim’s writing and his performance of his own work was excellent.
The subject has been brilliantly researched and presented in a narrative non-fiction form which I found engaging and educational.
Thank you, Tim for this great piece of work.
Easily the best written and researched book on the subject. BR
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- Amazon Customer
- 26-04-24
Funny, relatable and thoroughly well researched
Thoroughly enjoyed this book, it was above all relatable and the humor with which it is delivered helped me laugh and cry my way through it. A refreshing change from the self help books I usually read, I was impressed with the level of research and alternative ideas and approaches tried and tested.
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-02-24
Funny, relatable and personal
I love this for being personal but still so thorough and honest. It’s not a coffee table self help book with meaningless cliches it’s relatable, funny and helpful. For anyone that has a mental illness or for those like me, who loves someone that does, I highly recommend this book. The best audiobook on anxiety I’ve listened to.
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- Jack
- 01-06-22
Important
In a world awash with skewed pop-science and dodgy self-help works around mental illness, this really stands out. Tim shows a brutal and heart-wrenching honesty in describing the weight of chronic severe anxiety and it's effect on the people around him, reminiscent of how Amanda Palmer's the Art of Asking looked unflinchingly at vulnerability. This is mixed in with investigation of different fields of treatment from the mainstream to the borderline quackish, where he lays out some pretty knotted neuroscience in an accessible way. But it's the autobiography that carries it, and as a fellow anxiety sufferer I was often in tears of empathy and catharsis. I've been a Clare Stan for a while, but I think you'll root for our flawed hero as much as I did.
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- Emily
- 24-07-23
Really interesting
Really interesting and useful views. Made a difficult topic easy to understand and listen to, with laugh out loud moments! Relatable and balanced.
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- Michael
- 09-06-22
Deeply personal, universally applicable
The author writes from the heart whilst at the same time referring to mountains of data. A raw tale which will be fascinating to anyone with or interested in anxiety. The perfect millennial book. It's read beautifully and with obvious passion.
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- Lee Dooley
- 27-05-22
Brilliant!
Funny, very interesting, informative and beautifully human! A narration that continued to entertain. Highly recommended for those that live with anxiety.
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- A
- 30-12-23
Informative, engaging, and helpful
This is an absolutely cracking book. It's not your conventional self-help book - rather, it's a personal investigation into current and past therapeutic interventions for anxiety sufferers, their potential, and their pitfalls. It's interesting, informative, clear, concise, and sprinkled with enough personal anecdotes to keep it personal. Also, I have a background in genetics, and the explanation about the real meaning of "inheritable conditions" is the best I've ever seen in a work for laypeople.
If you want a self-help book, this isn't it. If you want a book about what help is out there, however, I don't think you can do better.
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- Emma
- 15-10-22
Waste of a credit
Rambling, self-indulgent, boring. One or two mildly interesting points buried in there but it doesn’t really say anything.
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- HeemOfRa
- 30-05-22
not a self help book (author does state this)
found it pretty interesting with some good insights on anxiety. it's not a self help book and does not really tell you how to resolve anxiety but I think reading this book gives you enough info to make it a worthwhile read
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