'There’s an authority figure and voice that has been missing from the COVID-19 conversation since day one: a mental health commissioner or czar. In other words, a mental health version of Anthony Fauci,' writes MonicaLewinsky
concert, talking on my cell phone with a friend. To focus on our conversation, I pull over onto a well-lit street in Hancock Park, several blocks from my apartment building. A man is walking three dogs Years of being hounded by the paparazzi have keenly sharpened my constant awareness of my surroundings.
He is gripping a gun, brandished at his waist. I am looking straight down the barrel of A Gun. I feel pure terror. Panic courses through my veins, and “what if I die” thoughts rumble through my head. I duck and brace to hear a gunshot, imagining next: I’ll be shot in the back. But for my own heartbeat, it’s silent, like the moment before an avalanche. And then, “Get out of the car, bitch!”
In situations like these, the heuristics we use to discern danger become obsolete. How can I learn to trust the world again?
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