I spent Sunday fighting something I couldn't name at first. It wasn't sadness. It wasn't quite fear. It was a low, humming agitation that sat just under my skin all day — the kind that makes you snap at the person you love most over something that doesn't matter, then feel terrible about it ten minutes later. I'd had a month off. A real one...

You're in the middle of your workday. Your phone buzzes, it's a text about a family situation that sends a wave of anxiety straight through your chest. Your jaw tightens. Your hands feel shaky. Your stomach drops. And then, like clockwork, you take a breath, silence your phone, and walk into the next patient room with a steady voice and a calm expression. Because that's what you do. That's what you've always done. You learned it somewhere between childhood — when you were tol