PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewAt times, Stern’s obsessive ruminations can be exhausting. I wanted to shake her and say, \'Get some perspective,\' but this is precisely the point: For a person with panic disorder, perspective is impossible.
While the supposed tension of the book rests on a discovery—the diagnosis Stern finally receives—the real tension lies in how and whether she will evolve in spite of it ... Eventually Stern learns that she’s not made of paper and won’t blow away. All the times she thought she would die, she didn’t. And some of the \'terrifying\' things she thought would happen actually did; she didn’t get married, she didn’t have children. But nevertheless she adapted and flourished in other ways .... \'Here I am now,\' she writes, \'living inside the very future I feared, imagining it would kill me. Yet I am O.K. I am alive.\'\
