The first year does not feel like one thing. Some weeks feel solid. Others feel like standing on ground that might shift. Most people who have been through it will say the same: it was not a straight line and there were moments where the pull came back stronger than…

Most people who relapse can point to things that were already shifting two or three weeks before it happened. Not one big moment. A bunch of small ones they explained away. The warning signs were there. They just weren’t being called warning signs at the time. The 10 Signs 1.…

The same arguments keep happening over and over again.The same pattern continues to repeat itself in the same manner. The same situation always causes you to isolate yourself, to feel emotional or to have a week of inexplicable low mood.There is a pattern to all of this, but when you…

For general education only, not a substitute for medical evaluation. New or severe chest pain should always be evaluated by a medical provider to rule out cardiac or other physical causes first.Tightness in the center of the chest. Sometimes an ache, sometimes pressure, sometimes sharp enough that you end up…

What actually happens on the days when nothing goes especially wrong, and you still end up flattened by evening?Could be a missed train. A text that reads a little colder than it probably meant to.None of it is a crisis. All of it lands somewhere in the body anyway.We talk…