The Imperfect Storm
- December 15, 2022
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Everyone deals with challenges to their mental health.
At this moment you may not feel lost in a cloud of depression or ready to jump out of your skin with anxiety, but you may be in the middle of a really hard day, or a series of hard days.
Sometimes we are blindsided by a crisis. At other times, the little things just add up.
Imagine your alarm didn’t go off, you woke up late for work and your kids were crying through the night so you only slept a few hours. On your drive to work, you suddenly notice a large pothole ahead of you. Someone is tailgating you so you can’t slow down, and someone is next to you in the adjacent lane, so you can’t move over.
You make it to work with a flat tire, but at least you’re there, and thankfully nothing stressful can happen at work.
Within a very short time, your typical daily stress-load has been amplified, and you feel that it’s bey ...
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