Joining the ranks of such acclaimed accounts as Manic, Brain on Fire, and Monkey Mind, a deeply personal, funny, and sometimes painful take a look at anxiety and its own influence from writer and commentator Kat Kinsman.

Sense anxious? Can’t sleep because the human brain won’t quit recycling thoughts? Struggling to make a decision because you’re as well afraid you’ll make the incorrect one? You’re not alone.

In Hi, Anxiety, beloved food writer, editor, and commentator Kat Kinsman expands on the high profile pieces she about Hi, Anxiety: Lifestyle With a Poor Case of Nerves wrote for CNN.com about major depression, and its own wicked cousin, nervousness. Taking us back again to her adolescence, when she was diagnosed with despair at fourteen, Kat speaks eloquently with pathos and humor about her skin picking, hands flapping, “nervousness” that produced her the receiver of several a severe taunt. With her mother also gripped by melancholy and health issues throughout her existence, Kat found live in a constant state of unease-that she would fail, that she would never find like . that she’d end up exactly like her mother.

Now, as a successful media personality, Kat still fights nervousness each day. That panic manifests in strange, and deeply personal methods. But mainly because she found when she began to write about her struggles, Kat is not alone in sense like the simple act of departing the home, or getting a haircut could be crippling. And though regular medication, counseling, an effective career and a happy marriage have brought her relief, the illness, because that is what panic is, remains.

Exploring how millions are affected panic, Hi, Anxiety can be a clarion call for everyone-but especially women-struggling with this problem. Though she is a strong advocate for seeking medical treatment, Kinsman implores those suffering to emerge from the shadows-to talk about their battle openly and honestly. With humor, bravery, and composing that brings bestsellers like Laurie Notaro and Jenny Lawson to brain, Hi, Stress and anxiety tackles a difficult subject with amazing grace.