What Does Healing Actually Feel Like? Fle’s Journey Through Depression, ADHD, and Generational Trauma
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- Masking is a trust signal, not a status report. Felicia was told after a first therapy session that she seemed “just fine” because she had been laughing and telling jokes. Her response reframes the whole encounter: someone masking is not someone who is well, it is someone who has not yet decided the room is safe.
- Why the distinction between suicidal ideation and suicidal intent matters so much in practice. Felicia describes decades of ideation and three moments of intent, and explains how fear of hospitalization keeps many people from saying anything true at all.
- How untreated attention differences can arrive at a clinic wearing the face of depression. Felicia was flagged for testing in the fourth grade, her family declined, and it took until her mid-thirties for the diagnosis to land, by which point depression had been the presenting story for twenty-five years.
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