Life Stories #60: Scott Stossel

Scott Stossel has been plagued by anxiety since early childhood--for more than a quarter-century, he's tried just about every therapeutic technique, every new medication. In My Age of Anxiety, he writes with candor about the effect anxiety disorder has had on his life... but he also opens the lens much wider, to consider how the medical and psychiatric communities, and the culture at large, have regarded and attempted to address this condition. We discuss that history, and why Stossel's therapist encouraged him to tackle this topic as a way of proving to himself that he's much more resilient than he gives himself credit for... and whether that worked.