Daniel Smith (DSM-IV-TR 300.02: Generalized Anxiety Disorder) is an author, journalist, and editor.
“I read Monkey Mind with admiration for its bravery and clarity. Daniel Smith’s anxiety is matched by a wonderful sense of the comic, and it is this which makes Monkey Mind not only a dark, pain-filled book but a hilariously funny one, too. I broke out into explosive laughter again and again.”Here’s the full episode of my talk with the great Marc Maron. We talk about all sorts of things: sex, self-involvement, circumcision, college, love. Do it up!
WARNING: Those readers offended by vulgarities, explicit sexuality, and stubborn, roiling, ugly resentments against family, culture, and the universe should proceed with caution.
So… I was freaking up around google, trying to understand wtf is this thing that my therapist said that I have, and after few weeks – I think it was 2 – I started to get crazier, because now, besides everything I’m worried about since the day I can remember, I also have a psiquiatric disorder. And, I spent my whole weekend thinking that I might be “sick” for the rest of my life, that will keeps me unproductive and I would not finish writing my college works, that i would not be able to study hard for the finals, that I would screw my whole life and It was very impossible to stop this thoughts – even when I realized how stupid they are.
Then, suddenly appears your blog. And I could see how funny my stupidity could be, that you (and others – from the videos!) are older than me, you are married, you have a kid and, well, you don’t look like someone who have a ruined life. And… I finally got better!
I wrote all this bla bla bla just to say that I’m grateful.
Thank you!
– Now I can start believing that there really is a light in the end of the tunnel.
=D
PS: I hope you can understand my english, I think It’s ok, but It might suck and be impossible to understand. Happily, the “thank you” is completely understandable, and It’s also the main part.
I enjoyed your hilarious interview with Marc, and was especially interested in the section about how anxiety ruined your original relationship with your eventual wife. I was on the other end of that arrangement for 10 years, dealing with a wife who suffered from anxiety that I thought was caused by her self-loathing and selfishness. So I wonder … when you said you thought the process worked the other way — your anxiety caused self-loathing and selfishness — was that an insight you had solely about yourself, or is that the general understanding among psychologists?
The interview got me to order the book, and I look forward to reading it. It sounded on WTF like you had achieved some insight into what you put your girlfriend/wife through, so I’d like to suggest that you or your wife consider writing a companion book about people like her and like me who suffer from being in love with someone who is incapable of loving us in return because of anxiety and self-absorption. Not sure how to make it funny, but that’s why you get the big bucks.
Ravi de constater combien vous êtes beaucoup plus développé chez vous pour la prise en charge de l’anxiété et de la . Je reviendrais vous lire avec plaisir.