The meaning of anxiety.

Louis Menand in the New Yorker: What does anxiety mean?A review of a book called "My Age of Anxiety."

Stossel has been in therapy since he was ten, and he has consumed a whole medicine cabinet of psychopharmaceuticals—Thorazine, Nardil, Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Valium, Librium, Xanax, Klonopin, and a dozen more—not to mention alcohol. A few drugs and drug cocktails have tempered his symptoms, but the respite never lasted long. His current therapist encouraged him to write this book, and he says he has taken the advice in the hope that “by tunneling into my anxiety . . . I can also tunnel out the other side.”