I once tweeted something silly in a state of anxiety. “Anxiety is my superpower,” I said. I didn’t mean anxiety was a good thing. I meant that anxiety was ridiculously intense, that we people who have an excess of it walk through life like an anxious Clark Kent or a tormented Bruce Wayne knowing the secret of who we are. And that it can be a burden of racing uncontrollable thoughts and despair but one, just occasionally, that we can convince ourselves has a silver lining. For instance, personally I am thankful that it forced me to stop smoking, to get physically healthy, that it made me work
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