The Hidden Anxiety of a High-Functioning Mother and Doctor

I spent years—a decade, maybe— ignoring the fact that I popped Tylenol or Ibuprofen like breath mints to treat daily headaches, ignoring the debilitating monthly migraine layered on top that sent me to bed for twenty- four hours (and simply blaming PMS), ignoring the chronic nagging muscle soreness in my neck and back from the hard, stiff knots that drew my shoulders up to my ears, ignoring the interrupted sleep and resulting chronic daily fatigue, ignoring that although I managed to navigate a