For almost as long as he can remember, Wayne Patrick Sheeran has suffered from severe social anxiety.
“Throughout my life I had this inner fear of people talking about me, making fun of me. I wanted to hide away,” he says.
Among other things, the toll it took on his sleep was acute. Some nights, he only slept two or three hours. “I wasn’t able to relax all night,” he remembers.
But since February, he’s been getting six to seven hours of solid sleep almost every night. One big reason, Mr. Sheeran says, is that, for the past four months, he has been running a twice-weekly 40-minute circuit, weaving through downtown streets here, over the Johnson Street Bridge, along the water on the Galloping Goose trail and back. And he’s been doing it alongside a couple dozen other people.
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Adrien Sala
Victoria — From Friday’s Globe and Mail, Friday, Jun. 05, 2009 09:39AM EDT
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