About six months ago, my therapist said something that stopped me cold: “Your insomnia isn’t just a symptom of your depression — it may be actively making it worse.” I went home that night, opened my laptop, and fell down…
It is 11:47 PM. I am lying in the dark, and without any warning whatsoever, my brain decides it is the perfect time to replay a mildly embarrassing thing I said at a work lunch in 2011. Then it fast-forwards…
Three years ago, I was averaging five hours of broken sleep a night and wondering why my anxiety felt completely unmanageable. My therapist kept circling back to the same topic: sleep hygiene mental health improvement. She said it like it…
Last winter I hit a wall. I was waking up at 3 a.m. four nights a week, staring at the ceiling with a mind that refused to quiet down. I tried cutting caffeine, dimming screens, journaling — all the standard…
Two weeks into a work trip across three time zones, something shifted in me that I could not immediately name. I was eating fine, exercising when I could, staying connected with people I love. But a flat, gray feeling had…