When "You Look Great" Means "I'm Drowning
Daniel's friend Adam is the person everyone forgets is in the room — and he means it as a compliment. Adam can go weeks without seeing another human being, yet from the outside he has everything going for him. Meanwhile, Daniel spent a summer moving house in the heat with a toddler, barely holding it together, while everyone told him he looked great. This episode digs into the clinical research on masking: why standard screeners like the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 read well-masked patients as fine, why prefrontal hyperactivation makes composure metabolically expensive, and why complex PTSD bakes a…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.