Stop and Walk Away
The past year has been unreal. Like, I sit and think about everything that has happened, and it doesn't seem as though all of these should be able to fit in the span of the last year... but somehow, they did. A year ago, I was marveling to myself that despite all the stress of having my son diagnosed with autism and being unable to get him services, working full time on night shift and sleeping shockingly little amounts, running all the time, and being in the most challenging class of my nursing career-- despite all this, I had not been fainting. Or even nearly fainting, because at that point, I had only truly fainted a few times in my life. But each time was brought on by stress. Usually extreme stress. I had daily near fainting and "POTS" symptoms in college- but it was brushed off due to stress and I was sent to a psychologist. Which in truth was fine, because I have also always suffered from major depression. I met with this therapist weekly for months. I told her fo...