“I think I’m just burnt out.” I’ve heard that sentence a lot, and it’s doing two jobs at once. Sometimes it’s accurate. Often it’s a way of saying something is very wrong while keeping the word “depression” at a safe distance. They’re not the same thing. They overlap enough to be genuinely confusing, and telling…

You’ve probably seen it on a pastel infographic somewhere: name three things you can see, three things you can hear, and move three parts of your body. You may also have tried it in the middle of genuine panic, found it did nothing, and quietly concluded that grounding is nonsense for people whose anxiety isn’t…

If you’ve got a first mental health appointment coming up, there’s a good chance you’ve spent more energy dreading it than you spent getting it booked. I’ve sat on the clinician’s side of that room many times, and I can tell you the fear is almost always about the wrong things. People arrive braced for…