Ten Days Before Christmas, I Overheard Her Plan—So I Quietly Changed Everything

look like tears. Sometimes it looked like staring at the same wall for three hours, exhausted by the idea of moving. Sometimes it looked like missing one email and then missing a week and then losing a job.

In 2018, I had a breakdown at my graphic design job—panic attacks in the bathroom, hands that wouldn’t stop shaking, a mind that felt like a radio continue reading …