Do you find yourself thinking, is this as good as it gets? I know, it wasn’t supposed to be like this. You looked forward to this time of life when you’d feel secure in your career and happy with the person you’d become, when you’d established deep, meaningful relationships and created a life and lifestyle you’d ...

I can remember it like it was just yesterday. I was sitting in my 12th-grade health class. The teacher was doing a course on genetics and inherited diseases. He walked around the classroom, asking each student about any disorders in their family. When he approached me, I told him my father was in the hospital ...