The person asking this question is usually not doing it out of curiosity. Something has shifted. Work became impossible, or nearly so. The job held

We all know stress. Rent increases, work fills up, something breaks at the worst possible time. It goes on for a while, and then, eventually,

You open your eyes and it is already there. That heaviness. That edge. Before you have checked your phone, before anyone has said a word

Your heart does something strange. It flutters. It pounds. Either it skips or races so rapidly that you halt what you’re doing and press a

You’re functional. You’re showing up. No one in the workplace would have guessed.But inwardly something has changed, and you have been coping with it like

You kept up just fine for years. A little chaotic, sure, but functional. Then somewhere along the way things started slipping.Deadlines you used to hit.