Anxiety has become a way of life...

Anxiety has become a way of life for my generation. In an insecure world, is it any surprise?

As we face what has become an epidemic of anxiety disorders, we must confront the social conditions behind itIt always hits me in the gut first. I often feel it first thing, my stomach twisted in a knot, my brain deciding it doesn’t want to deal with the day before I even wake up.

Sometimes my anxiety will fester around a particular thing – a cascade of worry about my work, health, social life, or often a simple decision I have to make. This worry becomes totally paralysing, with hours spent focusing on nothing else but this one issue. At other times the anxiety hits for no reason, a desperate feeling of dread that I cannot explain, nor wash away no matter how much I try.

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