Bøger af Steven R. Porter

Selected short fiction, nonfiction, poetry & prose from The Association of Rhode Island Authors: Martha Reynolds, Jill Fague, Theresa Schimmel, Debbie Kaiman Tillinghast, David Boiani, Steven R. Porter, Kevin Duarte, Hank Ellis, Barbara Ann Whitman, Judith Boss, R.N. Chevalier, Mike Squatrito, Jack Nolan, Jess M. Collette, Richard Maule, Michael Geisser, Emily Tallman, Belle DeCosta, Joann Mead, Alexander Smith, Pete A. O'Donnell, Abraham Simon, and Bary Fleet.

Brian Beneduce has always known there was something wrong with him -- very wrong. Even at a young age when his friends were enjoying activities as harmless as sleepovers, he would hyperventilate, sweat and tremble at the mere thought. He never told a soul. As he got older his condition worsened. Open spaces, crowds, bridges, tunnels, elevators, planes and traffic all sent him into spells of debilitating fear and panic, but never more than when he would be trapped somewhere alone with his own thoughts, and would be convinced that "The Thing," as he named it, would someday kill him. Yet somehow, perhaps for the sake of his wife, children, or his business he vowed that he would find the willpower he needed to beat it -- or would die trying. Scared to Death.... Do It Anyway is one man's inspirational and tumultuous journey told through the thoughts, feelings and secrets of an acute agoraphobic. It not only chronicles three decades of severe panic and anxiety attacks, but it also reveals the healing thought process of self-realization that helped him defeat "The Thing," build a multi-million dollar business, and discover a life of true happiness.