Category: anxiety

  • Stop Shaming People Who Use Accommodations to Work Remotely

    Leaders regularly use ableist and shaming rhetoric around people with accomodations that allow them to attend meetings remotely.

  • Why I am trying to make friends with my anxiety (and taking drugs in the meantime)

    A tricky thing about anxiety is that once you experience it, you begin to have anxiety about anxiety. I found this happening almost immediately. After my first anxiety and panic attack, I began worrying, “Will it happen again?” Once I began having trouble sleeping because of anxiety, I began dreading bedtime, worrying about anxiety kicking…

  • I had anxiety all wrong–and maybe you do, too

    I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I have started experiencing anxiety and panic attacks. For about three weeks, I have had a near constant nervous feeling in my stomach and a tightness in my chest. This constant low-level anxiety spikes a few times a day and becomes a panic attack in which I start…