anxiety at work!!

Ballard says that having prominent, successful creative people with mental health issues that manifest in ways that are clearly unpleasant—and a society that allows them to be so—is a crucial yet diminishing thing for other people who are suffering. The problem with that, I offer, is that we end up romanticizing the idea of the “tortured genius” in... See more

Driven by ultra-capitalistic incentives, the incessant pursuit of productivity and perfection combined with external, never-ending stimuli results in burnout and anxiety, the symptoms of an overloaded nervous system.

Melvyn Bragg on the dealing with depression and the part reading can play in healing. https://t.co/LGf0H1W0WW

Worry is an extension of fear, and can also set you up for attracting that which you don’t want in your life.

Anxiety, of which worry is a component, is essentially just unfocused fear.

But, like mental health conditions themselves, things weren’t as simple as that; they were knotty and complex, much like our minds. And instead, I found myself agreeing more and more with certain interviewees at the dangers of flippant mental health reporting, and began considering how “ghoulish,” to quote one, it is for us to become unwilling... See more