Nick Trenton’s I’m Anxious and Can’t Stop Overthinking made me look differently at the noise inside our heads There is something strangely exhausting about an anxious mind. It can take one unanswered message and turn it into a story. One mistake can become evidence of incompetence. One uncertain tomorrow can occupy an entire afternoon. And sometimes, the more we try to solve the thought, the more thoughts we create. That is where Nick Trenton’s I’m Anxious and Can’t Sto

Some of us spend a surprising amount of our lives trying to become easier to understand. We adjust how we speak. We soften our opinions. We hide the things that make us unusual. We learn which parts of ourselves are acceptable in a particular room—and which parts should probably stay outside it. And sometimes, without even realising it, we start confusing belonging with becoming someone else. That is the territory Kris Ferraro enters in Your Difference Is Your Strength.