Anxious people matt haig6/5/2023 Blurred around the edges, as if I was a walking watercolour. I used to feel slightly strange sometimes. I used to stare into space, while sitting on the fifth floor of the university library, imagining, with a kind of bleak terror, mushroom clouds on the horizon. The advantage of having had depression is that you know what to look for, and there was plenty to spot while I was at uni, but I never noticed it. The trouble with warning signs, though, is that we only have the past to go on, not the future, and if something hasn’t actually happened it is hard to know that it will. In particular, I believe there were also a lot warning signs while I was a student at Hull University. I never saw the double-whammy of anxiety and depression coming before it knocked me out when I was twenty- four.
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