Your Anxiety May Not Be “All in Your Head”
11-30-18 Maya looks like someone in the war zone. Her hands tremble as she nervously puffs away at a cigarette. Her eyes dart as she speaks to you. Her face looks wan and tight. Her leg shakes as she sits hunched and cross-legged. Everything seemed to make Maya’s heart flutter and her body shake. As […]
Did Edgar Allen Poe Have Muses Syndrome?
11-30-17 Sprinkled throughout the writings of Edgar Allen Poe are references to anxiety, panic, and hypersensitivity. Note these from The Fall of the House of Usher (1839): “Constant nervous agitation” “Suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the senses” “Insipid food was alone endurable” “Could wear only garments of certain texture” “Odors of all flowers […]