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The Gray Area with Sean Illing · 2026-03-02 · 41 min · 6,876 words

Of course you're anxious

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Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. We seem to be talking about anxiety more than ever. We're diagnosing it more than ever. We're treating it more than ever. And yet, it's not obvious that we're handling it any better.

In fact, it's not even clear that we understand what we're talking about. What is anxiety exactly? What are we supposed to do with it? Embrace it? Live with it?

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