Most people don’t lose their footing all at once. It’s usually a slow drift: more cancelled plans, fewer replies, a growing sense that you’re “too much” or that you’ll bring the mood down. From the outside it can look like…
Most people don’t start using substances because they want to “have a problem.” They start because something shifts inside them – stress that won’t settle, a mind that won’t switch off, a social world that feels easier to enter with…
Most people don’t plan to reach a breaking point. It usually happens the way exhaustion happens: a little at a time, then suddenly all at once. One more stressor lands, one more night of poor sleep, one more conversation that…