Future Tense

Future Tense (2022) puts to rest a huge and socially pervasive myth about anxiety: that it’s bad and should be avoided at all costs. Today, anxiety is considered an illness – something that should be treated with medicine or coped with in some other way. But that isn’t the case. Ultimately, anxiety is simply information, and it’s incredibly important for our survival. It’s up to us to make the best use of it.

Dr. Tracy Dennis-Tiwary is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Hunter College –⁠ CUNY, where she directs the Emotion Regulation Lab and the Center for Health Technology. She also cofounded the digital therapeutics company Wise Therapeutics. Her scientific articles have been published in over a hundred peer-reviewed journals, and her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and many other publications.