A frustrating non-presence of mind – what to do about... - Daily Maverick

By the time I landed on my therapist’s chaise, I was at the point of desperation. I was dissolving into panic attacks at my desk at work and I had recently contracted shingles, a painful viral infection that generally afflicts people in their fifties and sixt…

The psychologist was blunt: You have to do something about this now, or its going to get a lot worse. For an hour he had listened to me through furrowed eyebrows, my abstracted stream-of-consciousnes… [+13314 chars]

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