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We're All Hanging By a Thread Right Now—and That's Good News
I’m OK.
That’s how I respond when people ask how I’m doing.
But 'OK' is a lie I’ve grown accustomed to telling.
I’m not OK.
I’m a couple hundred miles from OK, actually.
The truth is, on many days, I feel like I’m hanging by the thinnest of threads, barely clinging to sanity, terrifyingly close to slipping into the abyss.
On most mornings, I wake after having navigated a litany of stress dreams and abject nightmares that remind me that sleep is not a rescue from the terrors but a time for my subconscious to deal with all the s**t I my waking wind isn’t willing to. I usually feel perfectly…
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