In Praise of Freaking Out
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2 min readNov 2, 2020
A confession: With due respect to the many pieces my colleagues and I have written and edited in recent weeks about how to soothe your anxiety, I do not want to do those things right now. Any of them.
My anxiety currently feels too big to soothe. It’s not a question of trying to stuff a square peg in a round hole; it’s trying to stuff a battering ram in a hole carved out for a tiny peg. What I want to do, to muddle…
