anxieties’
“Everybody's life has pressures and disappointments, terrors, fears of whatever..... Things I did to manage my anxieties for years. I'm a different, totally different person than I was, a lot of that stuff 20 years ago.... You feel like you're staggering around, you've been in a 15-round prize fight that was extended to 30 rounds and here's something that will take your mind off it for a while, that's what happens."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bill-clinton-says-he-had-affair-with-monica-lewinsky-to-manage-my-anxieties-report