Before It’s a Problem

This site exists for a very specific moment. Not crisis. Not recovery. Not a turning point you can clearly name. It’s for the quieter space before anything has been decided, when awareness shows up without asking permission and doesn’t leave when you tell it to.

The pages here describe what it’s like to notice patterns without labeling them. To see yourself checking, counting, or thinking about something more than you used to — not because you’re alarmed, but because attention has shifted. Nothing has failed. Nothing has demanded action. And yet, you’re more aware than you were before.

Many people move through this stage privately. There’s nothing obvious to explain to anyone else, and no language that feels accurate enough to share. You don’t feel compelled to act, but you also don’t feel completely untouched anymore. That in-between state can be hard to place, especially when everything still looks normal from the outside.

Before It’s a Problem doesn’t try to answer questions or push decisions. It doesn’t tell you what this means or where it leads. It simply reflects the experience of noticing — the line you haven’t crossed, the counting that feels responsible, the looking that happens even when nothing feels urgent.

If you recognize yourself in these pages, that recognition is the point. You’re not being asked to identify with anything or move toward anything. You’re allowed to just see it clearly, without pressure to resolve it.

This site was built to make that moment feel less isolating. To acknowledge that awareness doesn’t come from nowhere, and that noticing something before it becomes a problem is a real experience — even if no one else can see it yet.