In this episode I talk about a phase that often goes unnoticed.

Everything still works. You respond, decide, carry responsibility. From the outside, nothing looks off.

What disappears isn’t competence or energy, but margin. Tolerance shrinks. Decisions are made to close pressure, not because they fit. Timing becomes something you manage instead of feel.

This isn’t a crisis, yet.

It isn’t burnout.

It isn’t depression.

It’s the phase before anything earns a name — where functioning itself becomes the camouflage.

I don’t explain, fix, or conclude here. I’m naming what tends to be normalised, long before it breaks... when it is sometimes too late...