My name is Will DeFries, and this is the Sunday Scariest Podcast, your cure for the Sunday Blues.

I don't really have a perfect way of describing anxiety without a medley defaulting to an artist I

listen all too little of, Bruce Springsteen. In his song, I'm on fire, he says, at night I wake up with

the sheet soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head. While it's not exactly

the most subtle way of describing the feeling we all feel from time to time, it perfectly encompasses

the way I personally feel sudden onset stress. While most listeners likely found their way to this

podcast because of some sort of anxiety, or at least in search of an anxiety cure, I don't necessarily

think there's one end all be all for anyone out there struggling with something. Someone wants

asked me in an interview, what makes you think people care enough about what you say enough to

listen to you? While being somewhat blunt, it was the single most honest question I've ever

been asked when it came to the show. I don't really remember my exact answer and I know it wasn't

surprising or impressive one at that, because frankly, I don't necessarily think any advice I

give is something that anyone should take as the Bible. I relay my experience, sprinkled with some

research, and hope it comes out in a way that helps you. And honestly, sometimes I hope it's

something that can help me too. Since starting Sunday Scariest, writing has been my therapy.

I do less of it these days, and I believe that's in part because it's taught me to get a strong

hold on my emotions when I think I'm spiraling. The older I get, the more I get a bird's eye view

of what makes me happy. I wasn't an English major, I don't read nearly enough. Nothing I do or have

done has led me to believe that I have a resume worthy of considering myself to be a writer.

And honestly, that doesn't really matter to me because I never started this to be something that

I would put on a resume. In fact, I started so that I could never even think about that word ever

again. So far, it is working. This week, I decided to throw things to the listeners and ask what

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