My new therapist tells me that many people function happily day to day by maintaining a healthy denial of all the things they cannot control. Until recently, I lived at the other extreme, as if calamity could befall me any minute. Anticipating earthquakes, heart attacks, carbon monoxide poisoning and global famine left me exhausted, with …
It’s 1:13 am. The heat in the house had been automatically lowered a few hours previously to accommodate sleep time, but I was not sleeping. It’s the dead of winter in Minnesota. The seasonal depression has been in full effect for weeks now. I’m lying on the couch scrolling through Facebook, comparing my life with others. I bet …
Battling anxiety is like being in the ring with Mike Tyson when he’s about to bite off your ear. Anxiety is the favored opponent in every odds maker’s calculation. Anxiety will always go nine rounds just to draw things out. Just for fun. Anxiety is a sadist. When Muhammad Ali said “The fight is won …