It comes without warning: without sign, signal, or symptom.
Then, BOOM! One brief phone call and you go from not having a care in the world to feeling the weight of that same world on your shoulders. The sunny summer days that you've been looking forward to for months seem to cloud over in an instant.
When the rain comes, it feels expected, familiar. The chilly, gray bleakness echoes your current state of being.
It seems incomprehensible that your entire world can change just like that. It takes your breath away. It fogs up your brain and can make the most mundane tasks seem impossible. It even makes you nauseous.
You snap at your kids, burn their grilled-cheese sandwiches, and space out behind the wheel.
The worst is how it sneaks up on you: you wake up in the morning, ready to face another day, happy the weekend is finally here, then the haze of sleep clears and you recall your new reality: all is not well, after all.
