When my boyfriend's health anxiety is dialed up, it has a trickle-down effect on our relationship. He’s pacing the floor of his home office, wide unblinking eyes exposing the torment inside. Frantic ...

As the cold beer ran down my throat, the sharpness of my self-conscious thoughts started to lose its edge. The conversation started to flow, and the laughter became easier. The first time I discovered ...

I’d always seen myself as shy. I often felt like an outsider. I didn’t speak up in class. I was criticized for this by others, but most of all, I chastised myself. Beating myself up about being ‘weird ...

I have navigated anxiety for as long as I can remember, going back to not being able to raise my hand to talk in preschool. I would get stomach aches or feel my heart racing, but I didn’t know why.

My grandparents raised me, and they used fear as a parenting tactic. They thought it would make me safer, but it created anxiety. I vowed to do things differently as a parent, but my son recently told ...

I first made anxiety’s acquaintance during lockdown, but in hindsight she’d always been there, lying dormant in the dark without a name. Like the time I experienced my first heartbreak as a teenager ...

“If you don’t have anxiety,” stand-up comedian Aparna Nancherla riffs onstage, “the way I would describe it is there’s, like, an edgy improv group in your brain and it just needs a one-word suggestion ...

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