Either My Anxiety Is Less Acute or I’m Better at Managing It—Which May Be the Same Thing
The psychiatrist said that there were plenty of people whose brains did much the same thing mine was doing. He called it ‘anxiety.’
I'm a writer, researcher, and organizer living in Brooklyn, NY. I can be found on Twitter at @luriethereal and contacted through stephenlurie.com.
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