Acute anxiety can begin suddenly, affect anyone, and ruin lives. These memoirs, by two journalists, describe a process of unravelling that is shocking in its ferocity
The journalist Eleanor Morgan was 17 when she had her first panic attack. She was in the middle of double biology at school, learning about mitochondria. Suddenly, the blackboard went blurry, her head started to prickle, her hands went numb and her bowels began to bubble alarmingly.
“Within seconds I was convinced I was about to detonate there on my wooden stool,” she notes in Anxiety for Beginners. “Crack down the middle, skull to pelvis, like an egg. It was a feeling with no reference point or memory to attach to it and came with the speed of a bullet train.”
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