Health anxiety is far more common than most people realize. It is a condition involving excessive worry about having or developing a serious medical condition, even when medical tests show few or no symptoms. For the roughly one in twenty people who experience it in a clinical form, it doesn’t look like simple nervousness. It …
There’s a particular kind of loss that doesn’t announce itself. It doesn’t come with a funeral or a headline. It just quietly becomes impossible, and by the time anyone notices, an entire way of experiencing the world has already slipped away. That’s what happened to a huge swath of ordinary life in the 1990s – …






