Mikoto's Four-year Breakdown ((new)) Review

The breakdown didn’t end. It transformed. Mikoto still has her bad days. But now she knows: a four-year breakdown doesn’t break you if you finally stop counting the years.

The final year is the hardest to document. There were no dramatic gestures, no hospitalizations, no interventions. Just a slow, grinding survival. Mikoto later described it as “living at the bottom of a well—not climbing, not drowning. Just looking up.” mikoto's four-year breakdown