What It Feels Like to Be Anxious All the Time

Notes about my experience of anxiety

4 min readMay 10, 2020

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Here are some thoughts about anxiety. I don’t have any answers, or advice for dealing with it. These are just some of the things I’ve noticed about my own experience.

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Andrew Macrae

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