Human Being of the Week: Arielle Spence

Arielle is a fellow winner of the AnxietyBC contest. She won for her brilliant, hilarious piece of writing "Life Skills 101: Everything is terrifying and nothing is okay", in which she uses the form of a university course syllabus to describe generalized anxiety disorder.

"Learning Objectives

In this course, you will learn:
-Introductory Hypotheticals, or, how to imagine every possible outcome for a situation
-Advanced Self-Other Comparison Techniques, including
*Identifying your weaknesses and other’s strengths and;
*How to use self-hate as a motivator
-Directed Self-Reflection, including maximizing the amount of pain and embarrassment you can extract from one memory
-Embracing your Fear of Missing Out (F.O.M.O.) and why casual social interactions aren’t worth it
-How to live a mistake-free existence and achieve total perfection"

Here's the link to read the whole thing.