Tag: anxiety

Sarah Miller thinks about climate change and other current horrors, and what it’s like just being sad forever.

What we mean never fully transmits into what is understood.

A Childless Millennial’s Guide to Falling Apart at Disney World

Alyson Pomerantz reframes her understanding of illness when an allergic reaction turns out to be something else.

Debbie Weingarten considers the anxieties of mothering and being human in a volatile world.

Is “mindfulness” not the cure for anxiety we thought it was? Dang, neoliberalism wrecks everything.

Diane Mehta tries to manage anxiety with meditation that requires her to discard all her memories.

A new mother struggles to make sense of intergenerational trauma, biological memory and the guilty privilege of passing as white even though she is Jewish.

Here’s to more women embracing their anger instead of defaulting to sadness.

W.H. Auden named it 70 years ago, and our latest age of anxiety is one of Xanax, fidget spinners, and constant swiping.

Novelist Jami Attenberg discovered a surprise antidote to the anxiety that plagued her each time she had to get on a plane to promote a book.

Anxious about politics, Gary Shteyngart finds calm in the minutiae of wristwatches in this essay from The New Yorker.

I’m interested in the way that Americans — well, probably people in general — tend to address their anxiety with yap. I know I do. This tendency to lack the self-confidence to simply not do anything — to refrain, to be silent, not react, not shoot, just stay out of the shit — that seems […]