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Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take

Anxiety

Dr Mark Cross · 2020
78/100
👍 Worth It

Dr. Mark Cross earns his credibility on two fronts at once — he's a practicing psychiatrist and someone who has lived with anxiety for decades — and that combination makes this book feel genuinely trustworthy rather than clinical and distant. It covers causes, treatments, workplace anxiety, and co-occurring conditions in an accessible way that doesn't talk down to readers. The Australian framing narrows the specifics but doesn't undermine the core insight.

✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety95
Substance / usefulness78
Craft & writing78
Originality72
Evidence & accuracy82
Hype vs delivers85
Age-fit90
👁 Human-eye gut-check78
Penny’s verdict78
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