When your mind fails, everything else loses meaning. Work, relationships, and projects become irrelevant. You wake up each day with one simple hope: to feel like a normal person. To go through daily tasks without your own mind sabotaging you, without anxiety or sadness dragging you to a place that’s hard to escape from.

Living like this is exhausting. Every small victory, like getting out of bed or holding a conversation, feels like climbing a mountain. But we keep going because the idea that one day things might stabilize is what keeps us alive.