Treading Water: The Work of Healing That No One Sees
Psychology Today | 06.01.2026 23:28
During my years of psychiatric practice, patients would often tell me of their hard work in dealing with psychiatric illnesses or meeting the demands of damaged lives. Handling a mental disorder or arduous life situations had taken a lot out of them. This, by itself, wasn’t what they wanted me to know. Rather, it was the sense that all the work did not seem to get them anywhere.
