Twenty years ago, I was working a shift supervisor at a fast food chain - I was also a new mom and newly engaged to my partner of five years. In November 2003, I started feeling very tired all the time, no matter how much or how little sleep I was able to achieve I was always fatigued. My work environment was becoming more more toxic and stressful. I began having intense pains in my lower back (now I understand this pain as kidney pain). I was suppose to be working part time hours, but I was managing to get overtime on each pay cheque because I was doing my own workload and the work of incompetent coworker to complete my work. He wouldn't balance his tills and would leave them to me to organize. I was slowly falling apart. I was trying to be everything to everyone and do everything by the book at work. It started wearing me down, that I did reach out for medical help, I could feel my body falling apart. I was brushed off, being told that it was seasonal depression and to buy myself a sad lamp, but I felt it was more than just sadness.