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Trickle-Down Distress: How America's Broken Meritocracy Drives Our National Anxiety Epidemic
Anxiety is growing into a peculiarly American phenomenon. How did we become the world's leading exporter of worrywarts?
Susana Vera / Reuters
America is turning into a country of hand-wringers. Nearly one in five of us—40 million American adults —suffer from anxiety disorders, the most common class of psychiatric ailment we have. By comparison, a mere one in ten are plagued with mood disorders like depression, the second most-common class of psychiatric problems. Panic attacks often besiege Daniel Smith, author of the new anxiety memoir Monkey Mind, out July 3, while others suffer from generalized anxiety disorder, persistent and excessive worrying about everyday things; social anxiety disorder; and a host of other fretful condition
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Anxiety is growing into a peculiarly American phenomenon. How did we become the world's leading exporter of worrywarts?
Susana Vera / Reuters
America is turning into a country of hand-wringers. Nearly one in five of us—40 million American adults —suffer from anxiety disorders, the most common class of psychiatric ailment we have. By comparison, a mere one in ten are plagued with mood disorders like depression, the second most-common class of psychiatric problems. Panic attacks often besiege Daniel Smith, author of the new anxiety memoir Monkey Mind, out July 3, while others suffer from generalized anxiety disorder, persistent and excessive worrying about everyday things; social anxiety disorder; and a host of other fretful condition
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