Yes. In My Age of Anxiety and related interviews, Scott Stossel is unusually candid about the breadth of his anxiety. Some of these are clinically recognized phobias; others are persistent anxiety themes or obsessive worries rather than formal phobias.

Specific phobias he has explicitly described

• Claustrophobia — fear of enclosed spaces.
• Acrophobia — fear of heights.
• Asthenophobia — fear of fainting.
• Agoraphobic fears — especially being trapped or far from home where escape would be difficult.
• Bacillophobia (germ phobia) — fear of germs and contamination.
• Turophobia — fear of cheese (one of his most unusual and widely discussed phobias).
• Social anxiety / public speaking anxiety — fear of speaking before groups.
• Aerophobia — fear of flying.
• Emetophobia — fear of vomiting.
• Aeronausiphobia — fear of vomiting while flying, which combines two of his strongest fears.

Lifelong anxiety themes

He also describes chronic anxieties that don't fit neatly into a single phobia:

• Separation anxiety beginning in early childhood.
• Persistent worry that his parents had died or abandoned him.
• Health anxiety (about his own health).
• Anxiety about family members' health.
• Financial worries.
• Work and performance anxiety.
• Fear of aging.
• Fear of death.
• Generalized worry about everyday problems ("everything and nothing," as he puts it).

Physical manifestations

Stossel emphasizes that his anxiety is intensely physical as well as psychological. He reports episodes of:

• severe nausea
• shaking
• profuse sweating
• panic attacks
• shortness of breath
• difficulty swallowing
• difficulty walking
• dizziness and vertigo

He notes that these symptoms can themselves become the focus of obsessive fear, creating a self-reinforcing cycle.

Treatments he says he has tried

Over several decades, he reports trying:

• psychotherapy
• cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
• rational emotive therapy (RET)
• acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
• exposure therapies
• EMDR
• hypnosis
• meditation
• yoga
• acupuncture
• massage
• Stoic philosophy
• prayer
• multiple medications

His conclusion is not that any one treatment is a universal cure, but that anxiety is a complex interaction of genetics, temperament, biology, psychology, and environment, often requiring a combination of approaches.

One of the striking aspects of Stossel's memoir is that despite experiencing this extensive constellation of fears from early childhood, he maintained a successful career as a magazine editor, writer, husband, and father. His book is as much an exploration of how someone can function alongside severe anxiety as it is a catalog of the anxieties themselves.