Oh Sh!t, I'm panicking and I've got things to do.

Racing heart. Dodgy stomach. Escape planning. Health checking. Panic in the supermarket. Anxiety at the doctor's. Cancelled plans. Work stress. Relationships. Hormones. And the occasional day when your nervous system apparently decides it has nothing better to do than ruin your afternoon.

Oh Sh!t, I'm Panicking — And I've Got Things to Do is an honest, funny and refreshingly unpolished account of what happens when anxiety you thought you understood suddenly feels unfamiliar again in your forties.

At 45, Adele Clark isn't looking back from the other side of menopause with all the answers. She's right in the middle of it — trying to work out what's anxiety, what might be hormonal, what's stress, what needs a doctor and why her body seems to have quietly rewritten the instruction manual.

This is not a medical textbook. It's real life.

Inside you'll find supermarket panic attacks, health anxiety, relationships, work, grief, guilt, changing hormones and those completely ordinary moments that become ridiculously difficult when your brain decides there's an emergency.

And because sometimes reading an entire bloody chapter is one thing too many, there are Bloody Useful Bits throughout and 21 Oh Sh!t Pages at the back for the moments when you just need help getting through this bit.

You don't have to read it perfectly. You don't even have to read it in order.

Read the story when you want company. Dip into the Bloody Useful Bits when you want something practical. Or go straight to the Oh Sh!t Pages when things go sideways.

Less spiral. More getting on with it.