These are common states, not a diagnosis. If something here is affecting your health, your sleep or your safety, please speak to a doctor or a qualified professional where you live.

• Awake at Three in the Morning

  You wake in the same hour most nights, and there is nothing to do with it. The house is quiet, it is too early to get up, and the phone is the only thing within reach.

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• A Prayer That Was Not Answered

  You have asked for the same thing for a long time. Nothing has changed, and you have stopped saying it out loud to anybody.

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• Waiting for Something to Change

  Nothing is wrong enough to call a crisis. You have simply been waiting a long time for something to move, and no one has asked you about it.

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• No One Notices What You Carry

  You have looked after people for years. It has not been remarked on, and at some point you stopped expecting it to be.

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• Feeling Nothing When You Pray

  You still pray. It has stopped producing any feeling at all, and you have started to wonder whether that means something has gone.

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• Afraid for Someone You Love

  The fear is not about you. It is about a son, a daughter, a grandchild — someone you cannot reach and cannot help from here.

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• Told Your Faith Was Not Enough

  Someone explained why it did not happen: you doubted, you spoke it wrong, you did not believe hard enough. It has stayed with you.

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• Not Knowing Where to Start

  You want to read something, and every time you open it you land somewhere that means nothing to you and close it again.

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• Alone in the House

  The house is quieter than it used to be. The days are long, and there is a stretch of the evening with nothing in it.

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• Too Tired to Keep Going

  You have kept going for a long time. You are still going. It has stopped feeling like strength and started feeling like there was never a choice.

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