
When High-Powered Careers Come to Define Us
The Anxious Achiever
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The Importance of Taking Medication
Darryl: I was in this hell for so long. It wasn't an acute episode. It was a slog, a long downward slog where I lost my sense of normal. And you never took meds, right? No. This was another thing where I've never taken, I think I took one pill one time and it made me feel so bad. Yeah. He essentially had this acute episode and it was treated and he was able to begin integrating that episode and continue with his life. But the shame and stigma around that phobia was worse than the mental health.
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