Sometimes a Person Does Not Want the Drug.

Sometimes a person does not want the drug. They want to stop feeling what is happening inside them. The distinction sounds almost too simple when it is written down. It can even sound suspiciously convenient, as if one sentence could explain something that may have taken years to develop. Addiction does not usually arrive with […]

When You Can’t Let Go: The Psychology of Emotional Stuckness After a Relationship Ends.

The strange thing about this kind of being stuck is that it doesn’t always look like loss.Sometimes it looks like calm. Almost normality. Even functionality. You work. You talk. You joke.On the outside, everything seems assembled. And that’s exactly what’s unsettling.Because if everything is so “fine,” where does this background heaviness come from — the […]