I’ve Been Left Off My Friends’ Group Chat
How do I get over feeling excluded?
In his weekly advice column, staff writer James Parker addresses readers’ existential worries—and in-the-moment worries, too.
How do I get over feeling excluded?
His identity was a performance. His writing was sleight of hand. He bamboozled his own audience.
Now they think I’m a “bad influence”—and it hurts.
How do I get over this anxiety?
Why can’t I get anything done?
How do I rebuild my broken social life?
My job consumes and torments me. There has to be a better way.
Is my bad habit going to be my demise?
I’m not sleeping and neither are you.
And I’m losing my mind.