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Nerve: Poise Under Pressure, Serenity Under Stress, and the Brave New Science of Fear and Cool
Read also article from Scientific American
What is the most common mental health issue in America? You might be tempted to say depression. But you would be wrong. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, anxiety disorders now take the top spot, with 18 percent of Americans suffering from one. In his new book Nerve, journalist Taylor Clark begins by highlighting our extreme levels of anxiety, writing that the average high school student today has the same anxiety level as a psychiatric patient did in the 1950s and that Americans are five times as likely to suffer from anxiety as Nigerians, who arguably have more to fear.
