Don’t let one hard chapter convince you the author ran out of pages.

A bad stretch is very good at presenting itself as the whole story, especially while it is still happening and you cannot see past it. Nothing about a difficult period tells you how much remains or what it will contain. The sense of an ending is a feature of the pain rather than a report on your life. It is worth being suspicious of it precisely because it feels so certain.

If you are convinced this is where things end, treat that conviction as a symptom rather than a conclusion. Do not make permanent decisions from inside it. And if that certainty is strong or persistent, please tell someone, because it is exactly the kind of thing that eases when it is shared.