I’ve sat in on more first consultations than I can count at this point. Most start the same way, more or less. A parent sitting across the table. Not sure how to even begin saying what’s been happening at home. Last month it was a mother. Her son hadn’t left his room in weeks, and […]
There’s a part of this that people rarely talk about openly — the weeks where everything feels wide open. You barely sleep and don’t even miss it. Ideas show up faster than you can act on them. Spending money feels harmless. Decisions that should take days feel obvious in seconds. And then, often with barely
A patient once told me she’d started leaving for work twenty minutes early — not for traffic, but because she needed that extra time to check the stove, the iron, and the door lock, in that exact order, sometimes twice. She knew it made no sense. She did it anyway. That’s the strange, exhausting part
“What if something goes wrong?” If that question runs on a loop in your head — even on a completely ordinary day, even when there’s nothing actually wrong — you already know exactly what I’m talking about. Chest tight for no reason. Mind sprinting three steps ahead into some disaster that hasn’t happened. Lying in
“I just don’t feel like myself anymore.” Someone said this to me once, so quietly I almost missed it — like they were apologizing for even bringing it up. That’s usually how depression shows up. If any of that sounds familiar — whether it’s you, or someone you’re quietly worried about — here’s what I
