Other people are hard when you have anxiety
the 8 cruel ironies of needing people, but also not being able to cope with them
If you’ve read my book about anxiety, First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, you might recall I list a bunch of “cruel ironies” inherent in the anxious experience. A few people have mentioned them in comments about the place recently, so I thought I’d open up a conversation about the phenomenon, starting by laying out the ironies in one spot. Feel free to …