A family taxonomy of anxiety

I grew up in a family divided by attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors and united by anxiety. My father was constantly afraid that something horrible would happen to us, to the point of being controlling, unreasonable, and occasionally violent. I don’t know for sure what made him that way, but I have an some thoughts...

Time to leave, again…

I resigned from my job today. It took a long time, but what did it was the sense of being trapped, like in a dream where I am moving through a high viscosity fluid and each movement forward is too many times harder than it should be. At work, success meant being able to...

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