FLAT

You are not sad. You are not in crisis. You just do not feel much of anything anymore.There is a third state nobody warns you about, not depression, not anxiety, just a low gray hum where feeling used to be. You get up. You go to work. You say the right things at dinner. And underneath it all, the good news lands a half-second late and the food tastes like the idea of food. You have been watching ...