You Shouldn't Have to Explain What You Do to the People You Vent To
On the exhaustion of being misunderstood, and why nurses need a space where the baseline is already set
Here's a scene that happens every day, in every city, in millions of homes. A nurse comes home from a shift. It was bad. Not the Hollywood kind of bad — no dramatic codes, no tearful family scenes, no redemptive moments in a corridor. Just the grinding, soul-flattening kind of…