4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is NBR's life kit. I'm Anya Kamenets. |
0:02.8 | And I'm Corey Turner. |
0:04.4 | I want you to meet a little boy from Central Illinois. |
0:08.0 | At five, he loves to draw and wear capes and play with a wooden sword that is dad made. |
0:13.6 | He has one big brother, two parents, and three cats. |
0:17.0 | But by eight or nine, he also has this constant pit of the stomach feeling |
0:22.4 | that something's about to go wrong. |
0:26.5 | He doesn't know what it is or what to call it. |
0:29.2 | All he knows is he's scared of storms and high places. |
0:34.1 | When he flies on an airplane, he can clearly feel it breaking in half. |
0:38.7 | And imagines what it would be like to get sucked out. |
0:43.9 | Most of the time, nobody else can see all of this worry. |
0:47.8 | And he doesn't talk about it because it's either normal and nobody talks about it. |
0:52.4 | Or it's not normal. And that's super embarrassing. |
0:56.3 | In spite of all this, he gets married. |
1:00.4 | He finds a job he loves, he becomes a dad. |
1:02.8 | But the worries follow him until he has a panic attack in front of his kids. |
1:08.0 | So after 40 years, he finally describes this fear to someone else. |
1:14.2 | A doctor who very quickly gives a name to this shadow he's been living with all his life, anxiety. |
1:20.4 | And this is a hard story for me to share on you because it's my story. |
1:26.8 | This is me. |
1:28.0 | But I'm sharing it because it's also a lot of other kids' stories right now. |
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