This is about the new ICD-10 code for TSW (Topical Steroid Withdrawal), and what it does and doesn’t do. It doesn’t hold the truth of a disease. It holds what a system has agreed to let itself see. Here is what that looks like, in practice, on one page of one federal document. Page 158….

For as long as I can remember, boundaries were something I struggled with. I never fully understood where I ended and where someone else began. The concept itself felt foreign—until I began healing and learning more about what it truly means to protect my own space. The people-pleasing trap Growing up, I was a classic…

I never knew who I was. Not in the way people say it when they’re young and still figuring themselves out. I mean something quieter than that. Something eerier. If you had asked me, before TSW, before the burning, before everything, I would have given you an answer. I would have told you what I…