After many false starts, this might be the true age of anxiety
If anxiety is more common than ever, it’s also more treatable. But excessive nervousness wasn’t always taken so seriously
by Jason Schnittker
Jason Schnittker is a medical sociologist and a professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Diagnostic System: Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders Is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled (2017) and Unnerved: Anxiety, Social Change, and the Transformation of Modern Mental Health (2021).
Written by Jason Schnittker