From The Edge

Thanks For Asking

Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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If you know what it feels like to be on the brink of an emotional meltdown, you’re not alone. Many of us feel like we’re at the end of a rapidly fraying rope … like we’re falling behind in life and it’s solely our fault … like the reason for our problems is our inability to make lemonade out of climate change and racial injustice and a global pandemic. Nora recently asked folks to share what it’s like to be standing at the edge of an existential crisis, and you responded with your stories. Support our new independent production (and get bonus content galore!) by joining TTFA Premium. We now offer tiers as low as $4.99 / month. Sign up. Our email subscribers get first dibs on ticket sales, new merch, show announcements and more. Join our mailing list here. Did you know we’re on TikTok? Yep, it’s true. Follow Nora. You can catch up with TTFA on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook using @ttfapodcast. Nora's Instagram is @noraborealis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Nora McNearny, and this is terrible thanks for asking.
0:08.4	The other day, Hannah Mikakross and I were exchanging text messages, and I told her I was
0:12.5	high on allergy meds, and I'm not sure if that's possible, but my head did feel very funny,
0:17.8	and she told me she was low on life.
0:20.8	She was joking kind of, but I understood what she meant.
0:23.9	We go back and forth in our texts a lot about work and life, always apologizing for being
0:29.1	behind or feeling low.
0:31.7	It's like a teeter totter, and whichever one of us is up that day, reminds the other
0:36.0	person that they're being down is not actually a personal failure, though.
0:39.7	We have personalized every failure.
0:42.7	We've invented failures.
0:50.4	We see a normal ebb and flow of human energy as a defect.
0:55.2	We feel like our inability to produce consistent output is evidence of our shortcomings instead
1:00.0	of evidence of our humanity.
1:03.0	And we are not special, I know.
1:05.8	Lots of us feel this way.
1:07.8	Like we're reaching the end of a rapidly-frying rope, like we're falling behind, like the problem
1:11.7	is our inability to life hack and optimize and make lemonade out of climate change and
1:16.0	racial injustice in a global pandemic.
1:20.0	In February, a friend of mine sent me an article from the Atlantic called Bring Back the
1:24.0	Nervous Breakdown.
1:25.7	It's by a journalist named Jerry UCM who tells us that the concept of the Nervous Breakdown
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