Reaching Out

Anxiety, burnout, low mood, and knowing when — and how — to ask for help.

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The Panic That Came From NowhereFree preview

It happened out of nowhere, in the middle of an ordinary afternoon — your heart suddenly pounding way too fast, your breath catching like the air in the room…

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The Dread Before an Ordinary Thing

Talia has a five-minute presentation due in class next week, the kind of thing she's done a dozen times before without much trouble. This time, though, she's…

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When It Stopped Being Fun

You used to actually love the things you're good at — the sport, the instrument, the subject you used to lose hours in without noticing. Somewhere along the…

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Sad for No Reason

Noelle has been sad for about two weeks now, in a low, persistent way she can't trace back to any one thing. Nothing bad happened. Nothing's technically wrong.…

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Crying Out of Nowhere

It wasn't even a big thing — a comment in class, a song that came on, something small and ordinary — and suddenly you were crying, right there, in front of…

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Feeling Nothing At All

Reece hasn't felt much of anything lately — not sad exactly, just flat, like the volume on everything has been turned down. Things that used to make him laugh…

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Wanting to Go and Dreading It

There's a party this weekend that you actually want to go to — people you like will be there, it could be genuinely fun. You've also spent the last few days…

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The First Session

Deacon has his first counseling appointment this week, and he's built up a whole set of expectations about what it'll be like — lying on a couch, being asked…

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The Voice That Says It's a Crutch

You've started thinking about medication for the anxiety or low mood you've been dealing with, or maybe you've already started taking something. Either way,…

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Noticing Someone's Gone Quiet

Benji's noticed his friend has been different lately — quieter in the group chat, skipping hangouts he used to never miss, a kind of flatness in his texts that…

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When a Friend Tells You Everything

A friend just told you, out of nowhere, that they've been really struggling — more than you realized, more than they've told anyone else. You're glad they…

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The Whole Week Riding on One Grade

Winnie has started measuring entire weeks by her grades — a good test score means she had a good week, a bad one means the whole week was wasted, no matter…

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