Why we need people (but push them away) when we’re anxious
A post for anyone baffled by the cruel ironies of living with a fretty head
It’s been seven-and-a-half years since First, we make the beast beautiful (the book about my anxiety, bipolar disease and obsessive compulsive disorder) came out. It continues to be translated and published around the world (it’s being published in Spanish later this year). The book changed me. In the writing of it, and then in the conversations it sta…