Marcus, a 64-year-old retired postal worker in Tucson, had been taking haloperidol for paranoid schizophrenia for nearly two decades when his daughter noticed something strange during a Sunday dinner. His tongue darted in and out of his mouth between bites, his lips puckered and smacked involuntarily, and his fingers played invisible piano scales on the … Read more
Imani Brookshire, a 39-year-old emergency room nurse in Charleston, had been doing trauma therapy for nearly two years following a workplace assault when her therapist suggested adding a complementary modality. Imani had always avoided yoga studios because the brisk-paced flow classes she had tried left her feeling dissociated and panicky, the sequences moved too fast, … Read more
Imani Brookshire, a 39-year-old emergency room nurse in Charleston, had been doing trauma therapy for nearly two years following a workplace assault when her therapist suggested adding a complementary modality. Imani had always avoided yoga studios because the brisk-paced flow classes she had tried left her feeling dissociated and panicky, the sequences moved too fast, … Read more
Hannah, a 33-year-old mother of two in Minneapolis, left her marketing job after her second child was born to manage the family’s care full-time. Her husband Daniel’s tech employer offered solid health coverage, and she joined his plan during open enrollment without much thought. Eight months later, struggling with insomnia, intrusive thoughts about harm, and … Read more
Hannah, a 33-year-old mother of two in Minneapolis, left her marketing job after her second child was born to manage the family’s care full-time. Her husband Daniel’s tech employer offered solid health coverage, and she joined his plan during open enrollment without much thought. Eight months later, struggling with insomnia, intrusive thoughts about harm, and … Read more
Priya, a 41-year-old software engineer in Austin, Texas, came out of a yearlong depressive episode in 2024 and could not figure out how to feel anything again. Her therapist suggested she walk for an hour each morning and take five photographs on her phone of anything that caught her attention, with one rule: no Instagram, … Read more
Priya, a 41-year-old software engineer in Austin, Texas, came out of a yearlong depressive episode in 2024 and could not figure out how to feel anything again. Her therapist suggested she walk for an hour each morning and take five photographs on her phone of anything that caught her attention, with one rule: no Instagram, … Read more
Devon, a 34-year-old emergency department nurse in Portland, Oregon, came home from a difficult overnight shift in early 2025 and could not stop replaying a pediatric code. Her therapist had suggested grounding techniques, but the racing thoughts overwhelmed five-finger breathing. A coworker handed her a half-finished granny square and a hook the next week, and … Read more
Devon, a 34-year-old emergency department nurse in Portland, Oregon, came home from a difficult overnight shift in early 2025 and could not stop replaying a pediatric code. Her therapist had suggested grounding techniques, but the racing thoughts overwhelmed five-finger breathing. A coworker handed her a half-finished granny square and a hook the next week, and … Read more
Hannah, a 22-year-old graduate student in Boston, started her first semester of a neuroscience PhD program in good health and ended it on a locked psychiatric ward, then a neurology floor, then a neurocritical care unit, with a diagnosis no one in her family had ever heard of. The first symptoms were flu-like and unremarkable: … Read more