There is a lot to be said in our culture at the moment about dread, toxicity and corruption. I often feel that I need to start most conversations with an acknowledgement that I know just how bad everything is, how much injustice is happening and that I have my eyes open to the suffering of others. Even if at that moment I am having a good day or feel in a good place, as I greet another I struggle not to revert into the socially accepted angst of a good liberal therapist...