Anxiety

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and this year the conversation is more urgent than ever. We schedule our annual physicals without hesitation. We go to the dentist. We treat a broken bone without questioning whether it deserves attention. But when it comes to our mental health, something shifts. We minimize. We push through. We tell ourselves we are fine when the truth is something quite different. That disconnect has a cost, and it is a steep one. Mental health is not a