One of my new friends said, “You’re so adventurous.”

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One of my new friends here says, you're so adventurous. And that shocked me because I'm not a word I would have ever used to discredit myself. And to have someone who had met me from a clean slate see me as obviously adventurous was really cool. And I was like, oh, wow. Okay, that's definitely really different.

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If you would ask like my high school friends, that would not be a word they would use. The number one thing we achieved that was worth every dollar I paid for was realizing that the terminal goal for me, the emotion I wanted to end up feeling was not this satiated, everyone is okay with me.

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I am liked by everyone. I have felt all the things I want to do, but rather that I just want to be excited for the next thing all the time because that was the feeling that then you feel best when I reproduced it sitting on the couch in front of you.

One of my new friends said, “You’re so adventurous.” —Bob

Chris Lakin

Dec 22, 2024

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Last summer, Bob came to me with lifelong anxiety that eight years of therapy hadn’t resolved. We spoke (once) for four hours. Now almost six months later, I’ve caught up with him to understand what actually changed.