James Arthur wrote 52 songs in lockdown to fight anxiety

English pop-rock star James Arthur was inspired to write 52 songs after doing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in lockdown, as he says to the Evening Standard. Arthur - who struggles with social and health anxiety, as well as various different forms of depression - has a "fear of dying young” and admitted his anxiety heightened amid the coronavirus pandemic, "and then I made music again. I wrote 52 songs - that helped me through”.