Holding It Together for the Holidays: How a Day Treatment Program Helped Me Stop Faking It

The worst part wasn’t the drinking. It wasn’t the nights I couldn’t remember, the mornings I barely made it to work, or the quiet dread that followed me around like a second shadow. It was the performance. The smiling. The thank-you notes. The well-wrapped gifts. The “I’m fine” that came too easily, too often. I […]