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A six-panel SMBC comic set in a group anxiety/meditation workshop. Panel 1: A male instructor stands before a seated group and says, "Okay everyone, now I want you to just visualize your worries. Think about all the little anxieties you have. It's okay. You're safe here." Panel 2: A woman in the group has literally manifested her anxiety as a large glowing, flame-like dark shape; the instructor says, "Now you have so many anxieties they materialized! I've never seen that before." Panel 3: The woman strains, holding the heavy dark mass: "Man, this thing is heavy." Panel 4: She says, "I guess I'm just one more anxious person in an anxious society," while the instructor asks, "Can I go now?" Panel 5: She tells the dark mass, "No, you are weird and different and your differences are bad," and the instructor says, "Great idea! Let's see if it follows you out." Panel 6: The dark mass drifts away as the woman cheers "Hooray! It worked!" and the instructor weakly says "yaaaayyy" — she has driven her anxiety off by bullying it the way an anxious society would. Votey: The departed anxiety, drawn as a black silhouetted head in profile, has a thought bubble reading, "Maybe I can foist this on other people," implying the anxiety will simply pass itself on to someone else.