These essays are written from lived experience, not theory. They are not motivational, instructional, or prescriptive. They don’t offer recovery plans, life hacks, or tidy conclusions.
What they offer instead is clarity: how competence shows up under pressure, how systems fail in predictable ways, and how people adapt when things don’t work the way they’re supposed to.

These essays are written from lived experience, not theory.
They are not self-help, recovery plans, or motivational content.
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