Priya’s plateau began somewhere around week nineteen and lasted roughly nine weeks. She describes it as the only point at which she seriously considered stopping, and says the reason was not the plateau itself.
It was that she had no framework for it. Everything she had been told described steady progress, so a period with no progress had exactly one available meaning, and that meaning was failure — either the treatment’s or hers.
I was doing everything I had been doing in month three. It was the same person doing the same things, and I had concluded I was doing it wrong.
Things moved again in week twenty-eight. Nothing had been changed. She now describes the episode as the most ordinary part of the year and the part she was least prepared for, which she considers a communication failure rather than a clinical one.
