'Happiness Makes Me Feel Like a Sellout!'

Authenticity and purity aren't contingent on suffering.

Chama River, Ghost Ranch (1937) by Georgia O’Keeffe

Dear Polly,

Today my therapist suggested I get tested for ADHD and consider medication, and I'm freaking out.

I'm in my mid-20s, and although I think of myself as an anxious and relatively unhappy person, I've built myself a life which seems both objectively and subjectively pretty good and, most exciting…