Have you ever woken up within your four walls, a world thick with uncertainty reaching for a hand to hold, a reassuring voice, only to find an empty hum? A silence that seeps into your soul, gnaws at your psyche until it’s just you and your prying thoughts. Alone. There are days when it feels like the world turned its back on you, when the lows become persistent, the only mental state you know. I’m guilty of holding back tears pushing through so fiercely I can do nothing but catch them on their way down. It’s in that moment I realize how much I’ve underestimated hugs. But have I? A…