To Medicate or Not To Medicate?

The great psychotropic mindfuck

anna dorn
The Shadow
Published in
6 min readJan 18, 2021

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I’ve always fantasized about walking into my therapist’s office, lowering my sunglasses, and announcing: “well, I’m cured!”

Sometimes I feel that way, when I’m on an upswing. I’ll talk to my therapist like I’m the most neurotypical person on the planet. “Anxiety? I don’t know her!”

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anna dorn
The Shadow

vagablonde (unnamed press, may 2020); bad lawyer (hachette books, spring 2021)