Sometimes I think the only thing that can save us are the stories of other people.

That there are times when the only thing that can find us in the dark is the light of

another person's story.

It is an old and unbeatable medicine that we can find ourselves in the words of another.

Our stories are torches, the light of which helps us feel less afraid.

People who speak honestly about their lives are the people who have most often rescued

me in times of peril.

I don't know when I first heard the Moth Radio Hour on NPR.

Those true stories told live without notes and in front of an audience.

It just always has seemed like when I needed it, I would turn on the radio and there it

was.

I would feel myself being found by the story of a stranger, which is to say, I would feel

less alone, which is basically the one thing I have wanted most in my life.

So there are very few things in my life I am proud of than my partnership with the Moth,

with whom I create this podcast.

Go to the Moth.org to get found.

And also you totally don't have to wait till you hear them on the radio.

You can subscribe to the Moth podcast wherever you are listening to this podcast.

So all of this is to say, today on the confessional, I'm offering a story I told on

stage at the Moth in New York City in the summer of 2015.

It's called Panic Attack in Jericho.

It is a story about having a hidden anxiety disorder, but really it's about having my

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