Your feelings are valid
There’s a stigma around needing help. Like I’m a burden if I don’t have it together 100% of the time. But the thing is, we all need help, and there’s nothing wrong with that. There’s this toxic idea that you should be able to handle everything on your own, and that has contributed to a lot of mental health issues in my generation. We’re all struggling with anxiety and depression and we don’t know why because we “had a pretty good childhood.” Except we never gave ourselves any slack, we measured our worth by productivity, and we were emotionally abandoned.
The first step in resolving this issue is to simply validate our struggles instead of minimizing them.
Have some compassion for yourself - your feelings are REAL and it’s okay not to be okay.
