"I kept telling myself it was just stress. Everyone's stressed. But at 2 a.m. I was Googling symptoms with the brightness all the way down so my roommate wouldn't notice. That felt like more than stress."
you don’t have to carry it alone.
Some things don’t have names yet. The weight you carry into Monday morning. The way you smile through it. The 2 a.m. search that brought you here.
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"He died in October. By January I was back at my desk, answering emails, meeting deadlines. Nobody asked. I didn't tell. I just — kept going. Like there was nothing else to do."
"I cried in my car this morning. After drop-off. Just sat there in the school parking lot with the engine running. I don't even know what I was crying about. Everything, maybe. Nothing I could explain."
1 in 5
adults in the U.S. experiences a mental health condition each year
National Alliance on Mental Illness, 2024
56%
of adults with mental illness receive no treatment — not because they don't want it, but because they don't know where to start
Mental Health America, 2024
When you're ready
The next step is always smaller than it looks.
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