How I Answered the Question, “What Am I Going to Do?” After Another Mental Breakdown

Rachel Havekost, M.Sc.
11 min readMar 15, 2022

Trigger Warning: Mentions of Suicide, Self-Harm, and Eating Disorders.

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On February 19th, I woke up on my living room floor after having slept for two days straight.

A blood-stained kitchen towel lay by my head. My clothes were damp and stuck to my skin. Shit, I left the heater on.

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Rachel Havekost, M.Sc.

Author / Speaker. Destigmatizing mental health with radical transparency. Hoping to meet you in the deep end. Author of bestseller “Where the River Flows.”