[It's honestly heartbreaking to learn that this is the first time in Kid's life that he's heard anything like this before. Does his school not have counsellors? Isn't Stein trained? The technology level isn't so far back that they wouldn't have the DSM.]

That can absolutely get better. Where I come from, people treat it with a combination of therapy and medicine to help with the anxiety. A therapist can help you channel those impulses in ways that won't be as disruptive for your life, and the medicine helps regulate things in your brain so that you don't feel that stress about everything quite as much.

I've struggled with anxiety. It didn't manifest like yours does, but it started affecting my life. I was in a war in Afghanistan, but I was shot in the back. I had to go home. I left everyone I knew as brothers back there, they told me I might not be able to work as a surgeon again because the shot affected my arm. I started having pain and tremors that had nothing to do with my injuries. It made it so I couldn't work, couldn't go back, and that was worse and worse, just made me more anxious I was letting people down, y'know? The Army put me in therapy to help with it. It gets better.

[He'll just leave out that it wasn't really therapy that helped him. Yep.]