Lyndal curtis biography

Anxiety and depression can make no sense to people who don’t suffer from them.They are not the same thing as nervousness and sadness. They don’t affect the things you might assume they would affect.It is possible to have anxiety and to be quite happy doing things that might terrify people who don’t have anxiety.

I love being on air.I love interviewing and asking what some see as pointed or even rude questions.I love working under pressure.I am calmer in a crisis than I am at other times.My anxiety is not nerves.

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I return to the office after doing a big interview.It was a good one.I’m not anxious at all during it.Several people say nice things to me about it.One person suggests there’s a question I should have asked but I didn’t.That’s the thing that sticks in my head and stays there for days.Sometimes a single comment weighs on me so much that at night I go home and sit on my couch under a blanket day after day, sure I’ve failed.

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If I can avoid it I don’t make phone cal