Everything Looks Fine But I'm Not OK
Your life abroad looks good on paper. You know that. You have the apartment, the interesting job or the interesting partner or the interesting city.
Read more →Depression, Emptiness, and Burnout
Essays on what is actually underneath the flatness, the high-functioning depression that no one sees, the disappearance of pleasure, and the slow shutdown that the productivity culture has no language for.
Grief That Doesn't Follow the Rules
You're supposed to be over it by now. Or you never felt it at all. A therapist explains why grief doesn't move through stages - and why the loss you haven't cried for is still waiting.
Read more →High-Functioning and Hollow
You get up, you perform, you keep it together. And underneath all of it, something is wrong. A therapist explains what happens when the system that keeps you going is the same one that keeps you from feeling.
Read more →I Can't Stop Crying and I Don't Know Why
It hits you at strange times. In the supermarket. In the shower. On the phone with your mom when she asks a question that shouldn’t be hard to answer.
Read more →I'm Drinking Too Much and I Know It
It started as social. A glass of wine at the expat meetup. The bottle you opened on a Tuesday because Tuesday abroad is lonely.
Read more →I Think Something Is Really Wrong But I'm Not Sure
You’ve been Googling symptoms. Maybe you’ve taken one of those online quizzes. You scored somewhere in the middle, not severe, not normal.
Read more →Why Can't I Cry?
You feel the emotion building. Your eyes sting. Your throat tightens. And then - nothing. The tears don't come. A therapist explains what's actually being blocked.
Read more →Why Do I Feel Disconnected from Everyone?
You have people. You have a life. And there's a pane of glass between you and all of it. A therapist explains the glass wall - and what's actually on the other side.
Read more →Why Do I Feel Nothing?
You were somewhere you specifically went to feel something. A trip you saved for, or a dinner with someone you actually like, or the night you finally heard ...
Read more →Why Do I Feel So Lost?
You have the job, or had the job. You have the relationship, the apartment, the degree, the career track. On paper, things should make sense. But something h...
Read more →Why Everything Feels Pointless
Not sad. Not in crisis. Just flat. The future doesn't pull you forward and nothing feels worth the effort. A therapist explains what happens when the wanting system goes offline.
Read more →Why Burnout Has Nothing to Do With How Hard You Work
You've tried the self-care. You've set the boundaries. You've practiced saying no. None of it has fixed the thing that's actually wrong. A therapist explains what burnout really is and why the standard advice misses the point.
Read more →You're Not Failing. You're Disappearing.
What nobody told you about the psychological cost of a PhD. It's not impostor syndrome. It's something more interesting, and more fixable.
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