Adina was forty-one, recently divorced, and a senior accountant at a Minneapolis firm when she booked the trip her therapist did not exactly endorse. Twelve days alone in northern Portugal, no itinerary past the first three nights, a small backpack, and a cheap phone with international data turned off most of the day. She cried … Read more
Marisol, a thirty-four-year-old graphic designer in Austin, Texas, had tried four hearing therapists before she gave up on talk therapy entirely. Each session followed the same script: a stranger interpreter would arrive, sit between Marisol and the clinician, and translate her ASL into spoken English. The clinician would respond in English. The interpreter would sign … Read more
Marisol, a thirty-four-year-old graphic designer in Austin, Texas, had tried four hearing therapists before she gave up on talk therapy entirely. Each session followed the same script: a stranger interpreter would arrive, sit between Marisol and the clinician, and translate her ASL into spoken English. The clinician would respond in English. The interpreter would sign … Read more
Diane had been an HR director at a mid-sized logistics company in Memphis for eleven years before the call that defined her career. It came at 9:14 a.m. on a Tuesday in March: a warehouse supervisor named Curtis had walked into the break room, set his phone on the counter, and told three coworkers, “I’m … Read more
Diane had been an HR director at a mid-sized logistics company in Memphis for eleven years before the call that defined her career. It came at 9:14 a.m. on a Tuesday in March: a warehouse supervisor named Curtis had walked into the break room, set his phone on the counter, and told three coworkers, “I’m … Read more
Patrice raised her son Devin in a third-floor walkup in the Bronx, watched him graduate from a public high school, and then watched schizophrenia take him apart over five years. By the time Devin was twenty-six, he had been hospitalized eleven times, always brought in by police, always discharged within ten days with a prescription … Read more
Patrice raised her son Devin in a third-floor walkup in the Bronx, watched him graduate from a public high school, and then watched schizophrenia take him apart over five years. By the time Devin was twenty-six, he had been hospitalized eleven times, always brought in by police, always discharged within ten days with a prescription … Read more
Adrian made partner at a midsize firm in Chicago at thirty-four, a year ahead of schedule. By thirty-six he was drinking a bottle of wine alone every night, sleeping four hours, and lying to his wife about how often he took the bar association’s 1-800 hotline number out of his desk drawer just to look … Read more
Adrian made partner at a midsize firm in Chicago at thirty-four, a year ahead of schedule. By thirty-six he was drinking a bottle of wine alone every night, sleeping four hours, and lying to his wife about how often he took the bar association’s 1-800 hotline number out of his desk drawer just to look … Read more
When the family court judge in Maricopa County, Arizona, told Daniel Reyes he had 48 hours to enroll in a 26-week Batterer Intervention Program before his next custody hearing, Daniel had no idea where to start. The list the court handed him was three pages long, single-spaced, with phone numbers that turned out to be … Read more