Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

BATB score: 8/10 🥹

a novel on 10 characters on 10 different types of everyday anxiety - relatable and lovable in every way

Best to: scarier than being diagnosed with a mental illness is suffering and surviving everyday's immense anxiety while smiling and acting cool like you have it all in control as you are and do have the textbook definition of success and happiness #itsharderthanitlooks

Best for: we all need therapy 💔

Best as: "Anxious People" Netflix TV Mini Series 6.8/10 iMDb; yet, reading the novel was way more quotable, serene, and eloquent (I believe Netflix was trying a bit too hard to make it funny)

Best quote: "It's always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, but only if you forget how idiotically difficult being human is."

"At the end of your career you're trying to find a point to it all, and at the start of it you're looking for a purpose."

"You need psychology if you think you're a dolphin. You need psychiatry if you've killed all the dolphins."

"One of the most human things about anxiety is that we try to cure chaos with chaos."

“sometimes it’s easier to live with your own anxieties if you know that no one else is happy, either.”