/lit/ - Literature

>>19277877
Does anyone have any helpful hints for preventing panic attacks? So far I have been able to console myself knowing that despite how bad they get, they won't actually kill me. But now—when I get them at their worst—I start vomiting. (This is a relatively new thing. I am under a lot of stress at my job, which I may lose soon, and I have OCD.) Normally this wouldn't be a problem, but if I throw up when I am around other people I am worried it will make them think I am sick and have covid. The main thing that seems to help are distractions (I rarely get panic attacks while busy at work, for instance), but I'm getting really tired of waiting around wondering whether another panic attack is about to happen. I don't really want to get medication because I am worried that will actually make it worse in the long run.

>>19093737
Check out Jackson's book We Have Always Lived in the Castle, which I would argue is a better book than The Haunting of Hill House. There's also Hell House by Matheson, which is a bit more lurid than The Haunting of Hill House and is also a haunted house story.

>>19093782
She's fine. And we like female authors if they're good, but a lot of them aren't.

>>17628762
It's difficult to stage any sort of meaningful effort against it since our social ties have almost completely disintegrated. This is perhaps why the disintegration of social ties has been pushed so hard by those who shape the culture. A nation full of armed men counts for little when they're all ostracized from one another.