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Introduction For several months, I slept a full eight hours most nights, sometimes even longer, and woke up feeling like I hadn’t slept at all. It confused me a lot. I wasn’t looking at my phone after staying up late. I wasn’t drinking a lot of caffeine. By all obvious indicators, he was “sleeping well” … Read more
Introduction For months I searched for a specific reason. A single event, a particular failure, something tangible enough to point to and say, “That’s why it all happened.” “I never found it, and for a long time I thought it meant I was missing something obvious about myself.” I looked at the last year almost … Read more
Introduction I remember the morning I was sitting in my car outside the office and couldn’t open the door. He was fully dressed. I had my bag. My coffee was in the cup holder. I had about 11 minutes left until I sat down at my desk. And I sat there for 40 hours, staring … Read more
Introduction My wife once asked me quietly and carefully if I still loved her as I used to. It was not an accusation. It was a real question, asked by someone who had seen that this love that was once easy now seemed laborious, and who had no way of knowing why. I remember the … Read more
Introduction For a long time, I believed that depression was just an extreme version of sadness, which remained completely within the realm of emotions and willpower. One therapist I spoke to finally gently but firmly corrected this assumption in our first session, and changed the way I thought about all my experiences. I remember asking … Read more
Introduction The moment I realized something was really wrong wasn’t dramatic. It was Tuesday morning, standing in front of the kettle, unable to decide whether I wanted tea or coffee. It’s not because he was indecisive. Because making that small decision required as much energy as I didn’t have. I stood there for as long … Read more
Introduction My uncle ran his own business for 25 years. He remembered without writing down the phone number. He handled every family conversation with calm authority and usually came up with a solution before anyone else recognized the problem. He was the most capable and trustworthy person in the room in every way. So when … Read more
The Dangerous Connection Your Doctor May Not Have Mentioned My neighbor is one of the most organized and health-conscious people I know. She keeps track of her meals, walks uninterrupted each morning, and takes her sertraline recipe exactly as prescribed. So when she collapsed in her garden last summer — red, barely conscious, and dangerously … Read more
Introduction For most of last winter, my mornings followed the same routine. Pressing the alarm twice, getting ready quickly, and picking up whatever was near the door when it came out, usually nothing happened. When I finally ate something, often breakfast on the table around 10:30, I was already feeling crushed, irritable, and weirdly heavy … Read more
Introduction Last year there were about 10 weeks where most nights I couldn’t make out what I was eating, I could only tell if there was a packet of cookies lying around. I was gathering a few personal things along with a bunch of work deadlines, and my nights had quietly become an automatic loop … Read more