Forgive Me For My Struggle

This is an update for my earlier post about the struggle of realizing mental illness but not being able to solve the issue right away.

There is another part of this that I realized as I talked through it later. I have to forgive myself for the struggle. Hell, I have to thank myself for the struggle. Yes, this is the hard part, but the time before I recognized the issue was hard too. It was hard and I was doing it alone and I could have kept doing it for a long time.

I'm not sure if it's something anyone else needs to hear, but it was something I needed to say to myself:

Not being able to solve the problem immediately isn't a flaw in me. It's part of the process. These things are hard and they're allowed to be hard. It sucks! And it's allowed to suck. I can acknowledge that without blaming myself for the feeling. I can live and work in this place where it's hard and I can get to the other side.