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Concert pianist: We need to talk about anxiety

Concert pianist: We need to talk about anxiety

From a guest essay by Jonathan Biss in the NY Times:

 In 2015, when I broke my arm and needed to cancel several weeks of concerts, no one suggested to me that I shouldn’t tell the truth about why. A few years later, when I was suffering from acute anxiety and had to cancel engagements, no one suggested to me that I should reveal why. A physical impairment was an unfortunate fact of life; a psychological one was beyond the pale.

This is not a good state of affairs….

Read on here.

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