Not everyone gets a dramatic comeback. Some just get a steady return. That’s still a comeback.

The stories that get retold are the dramatic ones, which makes the ordinary version feel like it does not count. Most returns have no single moment in them. They are a run of unremarkable weeks where you did the next thing, and then one day you were back, with nobody able to point to a turning point. No arc, same destination.

Judge this week on whether you did the next scheduled thing, not on whether it felt like progress. Keep the plainest record you can, a tick on a calendar. Thirty ticks is how a steady return becomes visible to you.