Great Escape

Why We All Need (and Seek) Psychological Escape

The latest issue of Medium magazine: the act of getting away from it all

Siobhan O'Connor
GEN
Published in
3 min readAug 1, 2018

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Illustration: Rui Ricardo

RRather late in the third week of April, I realized I’d gone too far. I’d been, you could say, in a kind of rehab, recovering from a life that was pegged to the news, obsessed by the news, distracted at all hours by…

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Siobhan O'Connor
GEN
Writer for

I write and edit, usually in that order. Priors: VP, Editorial @Medium, exec editor at TIME, exec editor at Prevention, features at GOOD magazine etc.