Angst ist nichts für Feiglinge

Recently, a friend told me she also knows about panic. Just recently, she got stuck in an elevator. But that's not what I mean by a panic attack, I said. Imagine that everything you felt there – the tightness, the fear, the sheer terror, the racing heart, the trembling, the sweating, the shaky legs – happens to people with panic attacks out of the blue. They are always stuck in an internal elevator; there doesn't need to be an external trigger. That's the difference. The popular lifestyle journalist Susanne Kaloff hasn't written a self-help book; instead, she openly and entertainingly shares what it feels like to be trapped in the vicious cycle of fear. She talks about her own confusion and that of her friends and family, about therapies, about the fear of fear, about failure, and about triumphing over fear. Susanne Kaloff offers encouragement and ultimately discovers at the end of her journey: Fear means you no harm. On the contrary.