Tag: anxiety


  • Before we get into it, here’s how this post works. These lyrics are read without context—no backstory, no personal history, no explanation of who or what inspired them. Just the song as it exists on the page, the way a listener would hear it the first time through. After that, we’ll break open what’s actually…

  • Some habits leave evidence. Mine lived on my skin. The Arms I Kept Covered In middle school and high school, I picked at my arms relentlessly. With focus. With repetition. With the kind of precision anxiety teaches over time. Part of it had a name: keratosis pilaris.Keratosis pilaris is a common, harmless skin condition where…