When Anxiety is a Constant Backbeat

And problems are turtles, all the way down.

Zach J. Payne
3 min readAug 20, 2021

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I am a naturally anxious person. I’ve worn my anxiety like a second skin since I was 10 years old or so, and over the last couple decades, it’s become a permanent part of my personality.

But it seems to be worse lately. I think a couple of tweets I came across this morning do a good job of summing up why:

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