On Killing My Fake Panic

Before it ruins my life.

Photo by Victória Kubiaki on Unsplash

For me, anxiety is, in large part, worrying about catastrophes that will never happen.

There’s a sense of urgency. People who think I’m overreacting just don’t understand.

They’re too dumb, too thick, too naive. My urgency is not imagined — It is real. I look for things to reinforce my urgency. This bad thing that happened, the…