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Claire’s recovery was not a linear path, but a slow and painful reconstruction of the relationship she had severed with herself. In the safety of clinical care, she had to unlearn the “math” that had dominated her mind and replace it with the radical idea of self-compassion. She had to accept that health is not a look, but a state of function and balance. Her family now shares her story as a lifeline, emphasizing that a “wellness journey” which demands the abandonment of one’s own humanity is not wellness at all—it is a slow-motion catastrophe.