From Mad in Sweden: In a personal and reflective essay, Christoffer Kalfjäll describes how a deep existential crisis led him from self-blame to questions about the systems that shape people’s lives. It’s a story about anxiety, creativity, psychiatry, and the search for a language for the kind of suffering that doesn’t always fit within the explanatory models of healthcare. The evenings are always melancholy. That’s when my anxiety is at its worst.
This weekend I’ve been completely alone, and I don’t really like that. Three new songs for the band change nothing. I create in a rush of intensity, and when I’m done, the hangover comes. That’s the price I pay for being myself in my true element.
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