Hands: An Anxious Mind Unpicked Brown Lauren
Hands: An Anxious Mind Unpicked Brown Lauren 'Raw, intense and absorbing.' MATT HAIG 'I didn't give my hands much thought before they turned against me. ... And when she feels worried, she picks at…
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Hands: An Anxious Mind Unpicked Brown Lauren
'Raw, intense and absorbing.' MATT HAIG 'I didn't give my hands much thought before they turned against me. ... And when she feels worried, she picks at her skin. They have been chipping away at my life, slowly, slowly, in a way I could never have predicted.'Lauren Brown is anxious.
Written with rare wit and insight, it is an attempt to redirect the anxiety that's pooled in her fingertips for as long as she can remember, released in odd bursts in caravan parks, on European holidays, at GP surgeries and on the wind-stung north-east coast. Secretly, quietly, but increasingly compulsively, her skin-picking begins to affect her day-to-day life until she realizes she must unravel the reasons behind it.This sparkling memoir follows the thread of Lauren's anxiety - tangled and frayed - back to its source. It is a moving and joyful exploration of obsession,