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It will also make you laugh, a lot. It's wonderful at revealing the inner workings of the anxiety-ridden mind and offers suggestions for coping with the problem.But most of all, it makes you realize you are not the only person in the world who thinks these things. You are not the only one who is melting down over something that you think everyone else deals with easily.Turns out, there's a whole bunch of us who have brains that are twats and trying to ruin our lives.

As an anxiety sufferer, I can't tell you how many times I read a passage and thought "Oh, so it's not just me" which is so much of what anyone with mental health issues wants - to know we're not the only one. Aaron manages to handle the subject eloquently and personally with humor and wit. It's not only a good book for anyone who suffers from Anxiety, but also a fantastic book to give to anyone who loves someone who suffers from Anxiety to help them understand what their loved ones are going through. Well done.

It's very real but very funny at the same time! Great read.

I know of Aaron Gillies through his Technically Ron Twitter account, with its shrewd observations on the absurdity of politics and life, so I was keen to read this.How to Survive the End of the World offers a painfully honest and sometimes funny account of his experience of major anxiety – how it feels to experience it, the problems it has caused him, the lengths he has gone to in avoiding talking about it, and what happened when he finally asked for help. He also offers some advice on the coping strategies that have worked for him.This is the strongest part of the book. People who have similar conditions have found it reassuring (though he is careful to point out that everyone’s experience is different). People who do not may learn something and be more empathetic.I felt the book was on less firm ground when he reached beyond his own experience. I wasn’t sure that the overviews he gave of the different treatments would make sense to me if I didn’t already know about them. There are some odd interjections from celebrities at various points in the text which don’t add much. It’s almost as it someone from his publisher’s riffled through their contacts and told him to call these people and get something quotable over lunch.The best of the interventions isn’t from a celebrity but from a group of young people with mental health problems who speak very clearly and movingly about their conditions. Gillies does a very good takedown of the current media obsession with blaming social media for everything from gang violence to children not learning musical instruments in schools. He points out that social media also enables people who feel isolated and unable to talk about their condition to find likeminded people and share experiences.There is a narrative out there that we don’t talk about mental health problems enough. It is usually expressed by a celebrity talking at length about their mental health problems (often while promoting their latest album/film/book/reality show appearance). So on one level it seems we do nothing but talk about it. But on the other, we really don’t. It’s a lot easier to feel compassion for the sad but glamorous actor whose work you so admire than it is for Bob from Finance who is terse in emails and never laughs at your jokes. Bob from Finance might actually want something from you.Gillies does not underestimate the negativity that people can experience (after all, Twitter) but I felt he did kind of suggest that if we only talked about it, things would be better. What if it isn’t? What if you open up to friends and family and are told you think too much or you overreact or you just get an exasperated rolling of the eyes?What if you do reach out to a doctor? At a time when children feel they have to make a suicide attempt to get a referral for specialist help, or when people with eating disorders are told they’re not thin enough for treatment, how will it feel when you finally get up the courage to ask for help and are told that sorry, we can’t help with that, but you can join this waiting list?It feels like this book is trying to draw in lots of disparate things – memoir, self-help and a wider overview of mental health in society. It didn’t always succeed but if you’re looking to understand more about living with anxiety (including your own) it’s a good place to start .*I received a copy of How to Survive the End of the World from the publisher via Netgalley.

A book about a difficult subject written by a fantastic human--even if he'd dispute his loveliness. There is truth in this book that is funny and vulnerable and scary and *real*. It really is a self-help book for those of us who wouldn't be caught dead reading a self-help book.Reading about someone else who also struggles with "mean brain" reminds me that I am not alone. It might be helpful to you, too.

An entertaining, powerful and relatable book that doesn't feel too heavy considering the topic. Within a few paragraphs I'd laughed and also felt understood. It's informative, it's funny, it's a must read for everyone.

Funny and relatable!

Great book, full of wit and humor. I recommend it to anyone suffer from from anxiety or wanting to understand how to support a loved one in that case.

I'm into my 4th exciting decade of mental health fuckery and although I've either dealt with or found healthier coping mechanisms for most of it - it is certainly true that it DOES get better, something I once never would have believed and it's frightening to think I could have ended it now knowing how much happier I am - one aspect I've had to come to accept I can never rid myself of is Anxiety. This is my kind of self-help book; indeed, the only self-help book that's probably been of use to me as something other than shoving under the leg of a wobbly table because I'm too busy anxiously procrastinating to actually sort out the wobbly table (and obviously I can't let an actual human being into my house to sort it out, that would be dreadful). Lots I identified with here, some very helpful simple tips to manage anxiety and all done in a very humorous manner. Most enjoyable. I almost forgot to be anxious while I was reading it.P.S. Read the whole thing before realising this was by 'technicallyron'. I'm not on Twitter so missed all the book info but I have found myself sharing many a tweet of his secondhand on Facebook. Also, sorry you're not into the inspirational quote posts (actually, neither am I, I post an anti-inspirational 'Good Morning' quote daily, which started off as an in-joke to counteract a friend's sickeningly optimistic 'Good Morning' quotes and I still do them years later because on a 'bad day' when I go off the radar it's become a way of letting friends know I'm still alive/OK but in need of a time-out as opposed to being sunk in an alcoholic stupor; even though my friend no longer posts his sickeningly optimistic morning quotes... oh hang on, did I cause that...?) I have found myself saving a shitload of quotes from the book to share on Facebook. Not enough to make it redundant buying the book though. More like free advertising. You're welcome.

I've been following Aaron Gillies on Twitter for a while. He's extremely funny (at least in my opinion), and the moment he announced he was writing a book, I knew I had to buy it.Anxiety is something I'm very familiar with and How to Survive the End of the World offers an honest and funny account of Gillies' experience with panic attacks and anxiety.Of course, reading this book will not magically cure any anxiety, but it's a start: knowing others feel the same things you feel and maybe you're not so odd after all.

This is superb. It's well written, fast and easy to read, and along the way it's very, very funny. More important than that, however, it's humane and it's helpful. If you suffer with anxiety, or if someone close to you has this condition, the kindness, humour and support in these pages could well be a massive relief - not least because Gillies carries that most vital of messages, that you are not alone. With mental health issues, so often that moment of finding a voice you can identify with, of finding another person who's facing the same challenges, can be so illuminating - and I can imagine this book will offer that for many, many people. I cannot recommend it highly enough.