Anxious Man: Notes on a Life Lived Nervously by Josh Roberts - Non Fiction - Hardback

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Condition: Brand New. Format: Hardback. ISBN: 9781529363432. Publisher: Yellow Kite (Hodder & Stoughton). Age Range: Adult. Overview. Anxious Man is Josh Roberts's candid, witty memoir about living with Generalised Anxiety Disorder. An ordinary night out spirals into a breakdown that reshapes his understanding of himself and his future. With a foreword by Stephen Fry, the book charts Roberts's path from collapse to recovery with humour, honesty and warmth, turning a personal crisis into a relatable conversation about mental health and the pressures of modern adult life.. About the Book. After a seemingly ordinary party, Josh Roberts wakes to find his mind unravelling, and is soon diagnosed with Generalised Anxiety Disorder. Anxious Man traces the years that follow: the fear, the fragility, the small humiliations, and the slow, stubborn work of rebuilding a life worth living. Roberts writes not as an expert but as a peer, sharing his missteps, his half-working coping strategies, and his hard-won moments of calm with disarming candour and sharp comic timing. The book moves through territory familiar to anyone who has struggled with worry, relationships, work stress, obsessive habits, or the fear of letting people down, showing how these pressures compound into something harder to carry alone. Rather than offering a neat formula for fixing anxiety, Roberts treats recovery as an ongoing practice: noticing spiralling thoughts, challenging catastrophic thinking, and leaning on small, repeatable routines instead of grand gestures. Praised by Stephen Fry and covered by the Daily Mail, Anxious Man has resonated with readers who want mental health storytelling that is honest without being bleak, and funny without undercutting its seriousness. It's a book about what it feels like to live with chronic nervousness in your twenties and thirties, written with enough self-awareness that it never tips into self-pity, and enough structure to genuinely help readers map their own anxio