Think. Fear. Repeat.
Bridging the Gap Between Books Dealing With Anxiety and What Overthinking Actually Feels Like—Written By Someone Who Knows
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Kate Delmar
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About this listen
You're reading this at 3 AM because sleep feels impossible when your mind won't stop rehearsing tomorrow's disasters. Or maybe it's noon and you're hiding in a bathroom stall, trying to remember how breathing works. Either way, you know that feeling—when your throat closes around words you need to say, when your body rebels against safety, when overthinking has overthought itself into exhaustion.
This isn't another anxiety book written by someone who's never felt their skeleton trying to escape through their skin. This is the book I needed in that psychiatric unit at 2 AM, strapped to a gurney, convinced I'd never be normal again.
Raw Truth from Rock Bottom
From the opening scene in an ambulance to the final pages of hard-won wisdom, this book speaks the unspeakable. The violent intrusive thoughts you've never told anyone. The rage beneath the fear. The exhaustion of performing "fine" while drowning. The specific hell of high-functioning anxiety where your competence becomes evidence against your struggle.
Beyond Breathing Exercises
Forget the platitudes about "just relaxing" or "thinking positive." This book reveals:
- Why overthinking feels protective but is actually self-torture
- How anxiety inverts your threat detection until good things feel dangerous
- The invisible architecture of emotional hypervigilance crushing you daily
- How inherited fears speak through your voice without you knowing it
The Journey from Survived to Thriving
Through twelve transformative chapters, learn:
- How to recognize the lens anxiety puts over everything
- Why avoidance shrinks your world and how to reclaim it
- The difference between thoughts and the consciousness observing them
- How to stay present when every cell screams "run"
- Why healing feels worse before it feels better (and why that's normal)
Real Tools from Real Experience
Each chapter ends with a radical honesty practice—not comfortable, but transformative. These aren't gentle journal prompts but confrontations with the truths anxiety makes you hide.
What Makes This Different:
- Written by someone who's been hospitalized for anxiety and lived to thrive
- No toxic positivity or "just believe in yourself" nonsense
- Addresses the physical symptoms doctors often ignore
- Talks about the rage, shame, and grief anxiety books usually skip
- Practical wisdom from someone still living with (not "cured" of) anxiety
This Book Is For You If:
- You've tried everything and still wake up with dread
- Your anxiety has anxiety about having anxiety
- You're exhausted from overthinking but can't stop
- You need someone who gets that "just breathe" isn't enough
- You're ready for brutal honesty about what recovery actually looks like
I wrote this in the depths of anxiety and in moments of peace, through relapses and breakthroughs, with shaking hands and steady ones. It's the conversation I wish I could have with you at 3 AM when the world feels too sharp and too loud and utterly impossible.
You're not too broken. You're not too far gone. You're just someone learning to walk through fire without believing you are the fire.
From psychiatric unit to published author. From rock bottom to real life. This is the map I drew in the dark.
Contains strong language and discussions of mental health crises. This book doesn't promise cures—it promises truth, tools, and the knowledge that you're not walking alone.
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