Parity Pipeline

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Have you ever felt anxious? Like, it’s all you can do to not totally freak out right now? Yeah? Us too. You are not alone, and neither is Whitney, but she still feels that alone feeling. Until today. Whitney is 17 and a new student at the Woodward High Boarding School in Upstate New York. What you don’t know – and neither do her fellow classmates – is when Whitney’s anxiety comes out, she gets strong. Like - she’s going to break everything in her path until she’s free - strong. We like to call it – SUPER HUMAN ANXIETY. Today she will be tested – her hardest test to date. As she waves goodbye to her classmates, awaiting her elevator door to close, in rushes Ms. Sweetly, 27, the coolest teacher in school. Whitney keeps her cool…as best she can…until the elevator jerks to a stop. It’s broken. Crap. Whitney knows she could easily just tear through the walls, but she wants this power to remain a secret, so she must wait – the worst thing you can ask an anxious person to do! She’s tried to prepare herself for an event like this. She has a bookbag full of items she uses to control her anxious strength – like a stress ball. But none are doing the trick – the ball immediately pops. The anxiety just keeps building, no matter how hard she tries to diffuse it. Ms. Sweetly notices her anxiousness and works to calm her down. “Breathe with me” she says and admits that she too is often confronted with anxious feelings, but she has learned how to control them. When the breathing doesn’t work, Ms. Sweetly moves onto the next tactic – using those powers for good! She tells Whitney to pull a part the doors. “It doesn’t freak you out?” Whitney asks. “Just do it!” Ms. Sweetly exclaims. Whitney pries open the doors, but the elevator is stuck between floors forcing them to climb out. “Hold on.” Ms. Sweetly says. She pulls kinetic energy from within showing us that she, too, has superhuman powers. She makes the elevator move up to become flush with the floor. Whitney is in shock. Ms. Sweetly invites Whitney to go with her on Fall break to a place where there are more ‘like us,’ but this time, they take the stairs! “Super Human Anxiety” will explore generalized anxiety through the eyes of these two super heroes who have to hide their powers from the world, yet their anxiousness makes it nearly impossible! At the end, they’re happy to find each other, and Ms. Sweetly sees this as an opportunity for her to step up and be the mentor she needed when she was Whitney’s age. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can even help superheroes!