Les Zig

1989 That Other Me is a series that explores the immediacy and intimacy of various mental health episodes I’ve experienced throughout my life. I sit in the lobby, waiting to see my psychiatrist. Since that initial panic episode that introduced me to the public health system, these appointments have been little more than check-ins to say, the occasional anxiety aside, I’m doing okay. That’s what I expect this afternoon. I felt good in the morning. And then, it’s nothing but the fear, terror, and panic that instantaneously immerses me until that’s all I am, and my conscious self is sinking right out of it, squeezed out to a place where…