Reading this book I found so many moments that I pointed out thinking, "YES! That is so me!" and reading other readers reviews, I can see many similarities. This is a book that has made anxiety a tighter and more defiant community. People who carry the beast with them know that there are many more others like them and that they're not alone in their sometimes bizarre, yet completely normal rituals or daily mechanisms.

I never have thought that anxiety is part of my build. After reading this, I can see that so many of the little things that I do daily are akin to guiding the beast through the ebbs and flows of my life. I would have never thought to even entertain the idea that it perhaps is anxiety; not because of a preconceived perception that I have, but more so because I have never really been able to understand what anxiety or its triggers are. As it is not something necessarily tangible (to me), my ability to dissect it is thwarted; it's something I can't analyse which is my preferred method of investigation. It's challenging for me and that's something that is both exciting and terrifying simultaneously.

I feel like I have to go back and read this through again as there were so many sentences, phrases and quotes that jumped off the page for me. I want to highlight, post-it and notate this book to within an inch of its being.

At the conclusion of reading I was going to rate this 3 stars however, as the days passed I found my mind thinking back to it at various points of the day. It's a book that has fixed itself to me, which many rarely do hence I'm upping the rating to a 4.