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The Quiet Alarm

Why High-Functioning People Are the Most Anxious and What Nobody Tells Them

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The Quiet Alarm

By: Talia Banks
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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. She had never missed a deadline. Never fallen apart in a meeting. From the outside she looked like someone who had everything under control. From the inside there was a low and constant hum she had learned to call normal.

This book is about what happens when a high-functioning nervous system runs too long without being told it is safe to stop. Through the story of Nora, a project manager who spent decades treating her own discomfort as a logistics problem, it explains why people who perform best under pressure are often the most chronically anxious, why every success raises the stakes instead of lowering them, and why the vigilance that produces results quietly costs everything else. It covers the biology of a system stuck on high, the counterintuitive reason achievement makes it worse, and the specific, science-backed tools that actually teach the body the emergency is over. Anxiety Disorders Hygiene & Healthy Living Mental Health Personal Development Psychology & Mental Health Stress Management
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