Author: Joe Rutland

Imagine sitting down in a comfortable chair, reading a book or watching television, and having a 100-mile-per-hour tornado roaring through every fiber of your body. Sitting still for even a minute feels like a lifetime. Focusing on being “present in the moment” is a distant thought. Just even paying attention to one’s own basic life needs feels like a struggle. To me, this partly defines anxiety disorder—something I’ve had to address for more than 20 years. Honestly, it might be much longer but this is as long as I have been aware of it. Generalized anxiety disorder leaves me...