Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Not Just Me
Lisa Jakub · 2017
78/100
👍 Worth It
Jakub's greatest contribution here is breadth — she refuses to write a book about one kind of anxiety, and the result is a mental health map that will make readers with different diagnoses feel genuinely seen. The celebrity angle gives it visibility, but the substance is in the journalism: veterans, children, people with eating disorders, people whose anxiety looks nothing like the textbook definition. Honest and human rather than prescriptive.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety88
Substance / usefulness78
Craft & writing80
Originality80
Evidence & accuracy76
Hype vs delivers82
Age-fit82
👁 Human-eye gut-check80
Penny’s verdict78
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