doctor: the med you’ve been on your whole adult life has stopped working for your severe anxiety
me: ok and the supplemental one isn’t doing anything either
doctor: have you tried yoga
doctor: the med you’ve been on your whole adult life has stopped working for your severe anxiety
me: ok and the supplemental one isn’t doing anything either
doctor: have you tried yoga
as someone with an anxiety disorder who gets bad brain fog during very anxious periods, choosing software engineering and then writing as careers was certainly a series of decisions
it feels deeply weird to be Going Through It with my lifelong anxiety disorder as an american in 2025
like yeah i'm grappling with crushing feelings of impending doom but who isn't?
i would like to go back to being anxious about irrational, or at least highly implausible, things