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• Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety…
• To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a…
• To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala”—the home of the fight-or-flight reflex—“is as limiting as saying…
• It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy,…
• During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke…
• Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.
• I have, since the age of about 2, been a twitchy bundle of phobias, fears, and neuroses. And I have, since the…
• When I was 5 and my sister was 3, we went on a family trip, and she ate cheese off the floor…
• I had no trouble with strangers finding out about my anxiety. It was my friends and colleagues I was concerned about.
• To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.
• Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of torpor and…
• To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or…

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