The Wall

What people don’t get is that there is no clean line between grief and stress anymore. Parenting stress. Money stress. Work stress. Sleep deprivation. Administrative overload. Decision fatigue. Loneliness. Then the original grief under all of it like groundwater. At a certain point you stop being able to sort what is what. You’re just a system under strain. And that matters because sometimes people respond to one piece like it’s separate. “You just need rest.” “You just need support.” “You just need to get out more.” Sure, those things matter. But this isn’t one loose screw. It’s structural.