By Kelsey Darragh.
From Kelsey Darragh — comedian, filmmaker, mental health advocate, and the "big sister" of mental health on the internet. Formerly of BuzzFeed, host of E!'s Dating No Filter, and host of the chart-topping podcast Confidently Insecure. Her anxiety videos have generated over 250 million views. She wrote this book because she knows exactly what you're feeling right now — and she's not going to pretend otherwise.
"Don't F*cking Panic" is an interactive mental health workbook — 370 illustrated pages covering the holy trinity of conditions that nobody talks about honestly enough: anxiety disorder, panic attacks, and depression. Not the sanitized version. The real version. The wave of digestive chaos after a panic attack. The passive thought of wanting to disappear sometimes. The 3am certainty that you're going crazy. The exhausting performance of being fine when your brain is running a five-alarm disaster drill inside your chest.
Darragh covers all of it — because she has lived all of it — a