You are keeping it together. Getting through the days. Showing up to work, to your family, to your responsibilities. Nobody around you is particularly worried. And yet. There is something underneath the surface that does not quite resolve. A low-level hum of stress that never fully switches off. A sense that you are going through the motions rather than actually living. A tiredness that rest does not seem to touch. A version of yourself that you used to be, that feels further

You have seen the posts. Someone shares a story about a difficult conversation with a partner and the comments flood in: 'That is gaslighting.' A person talks about needing space from family and the replies call it 'boundary-setting.' Someone describes a week of low motivation and the caption reads: 'my anxiety is speaking.' Psychological language -- once confined to therapy rooms and clinical textbooks -- has become the lingua franca of social media. Words like 'trauma respo