Globe and Mail.CA: Forging the bond between creativity and anxiety. November 10, 2016 by Garret Vreeland in Arts, Books, Psychology The airy study and the quiet afternoons look awfully nice in the videos, but the life described by my correspondents was one riven by fever and fret, a life of staving off panic and the harsh voices in one’s head. Don’t believe the videos: The most famous writers in the country can’t get over their divorces and take a lot of pills.