A Reflection on Worrying: Worry and Communication
Novelist Emma Jane Unsworth delves into the perils of modern communication and its scope for fuelling persistent and repeated personal anxiety.
We all have worries but rarely do we speak honestly about them. In this series of personal essays, five essayists share their intimate relationship with worry. As a novelist, Emma Jane Unsworth is no stranger to hearing the nagging voices of characters in her head. But there's another needling voice that keeps her awake at night and that is the voice of her social media fears. In her essay she delves into the perils of modern communication and its scope for fuelling persistent and repeated personal anxiety.
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