Work, Career & Mental Health

There are days when you watch a film or scroll past someone's story about the moment everything clicked — the calling they found, the path that finally made sense — and something in you quietly contracts. You know those stories are polished. You know they leave out the years of uncertainty, the detours, the doubt. And yet another part of you still wonders: why don't I have that? That wondering is worth paying attention to. Not because it means something is wrong with you — bu

There's a particular kind of exhaustion that doesn't show up on any performance review. You're functioning. Meeting deadlines, showing up, keeping things together. But underneath — something is quietly fraying. Maybe it's the Sunday dread that starts earlier each week. The emails you check compulsively, not because you want to, but because not checking feels worse. The way a critical comment from a manager can undo an entire day's confidence. The sense that no matter how much