Goin' The Distance - Social Disorder

Thoughts Of A Social Phobic

Advantages: None that I can think of
Disadvantages: Makes so many everyday situations harder than they have to be

assure you, I do understand it is irrational - is because I have suffered from something known as social phobia or social anxiety disorder since late childhood. I suggested this category to the site a few months ago because I think it is something that there should be more awareness of; it is considered to be the third most common psychological disorder in the Western world (after depression and alcoholism) but it is far less widely known or understood, having only been recognised as a distinct condition as recently as 1980. I cannot find any figures for the UK, but in the US population, it is estimated that around 3 - 4% of people suffer from social phobia at any given time, with there being twice as many female sufferers as male. Since I put in that suggestion, however, I have been putting off writing about something so very personal that ...

Collingwood21 23.05.2009 · Read full review
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Keeps You At a Distance

Advantages: Appendices make this a useful reference work
Disadvantages: No real insight as the author was kept at a distance.

read the book with some of Joy Division's music in the background, as it can help to underline the points about Ian Curtis' state of mind. However, it does say something about the book that the best insights into the man come from the work of the man himself and not from the words of the author. The distance that Ian Curtis kept his wife at for much of their lives together not only had an adverse affect on their marriage, but has also had an adverse affect on this book. This is a slightly amended version of a review previously published under my name at www.thebookbag.co.uk ...

Soho_Black 24.02.2008 · Read full review
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Hurting distance - Sophie Hannah

Advantages: A good Read
Disadvantages: I have to wait till next year for her next book

Hurting Distance - Sophie Hannah I bought this book at my local Tesco on a buy two for £7.00 deal and it was well worth it. I'm an avid reader and have read about 12 books this month of all different types. I tend to pick books by reading the back cover and then the first page and if it grips me immediately then I can't leave it behind. The back of this book says "Three years ago, something terrible happened to Naomi Jenkins - so terrible she never told anyone" and the first page is an email she has written to a website called "Speak out and Survive"; you know then from the first page what Naomi's secret is, she's been raped. No I'm not giving the plot away, far from it, that's what I thought as well when I read it. I then though oh well; I'll give it a go anyway. The next chapter is about a man she is deeply in love ...

Sgathach 30.10.2007 · Read full review
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