Courage and Agency in Mental Health

Building habits of endurance

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At the end of On Getting Out of Bed, I claim that “while we may hesitate to call getting out of bed ‘courageous,’ it is undeniably true that day-to-day life demands a great deal of courage.” I think anyone who has suffered from a mental affliction can resonate with this sense of the courage needed to live. Sometimes it …