A Painful Secret: You’re Worth Helping, Too.

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You’re always helping others, and you’re only motivated when you have to save someone else. A baby, a family member, a friend in need.

You’re the one people look to for help. They need you. And you have a secret.

You need them, too. You have no idea what you’re going to do next. You have problems, too. They’re so big, so vast, so consuming. You push them down. You sleep or drink them away. You don’t dare to remember how you became this way, or why.

You work well under pressure. Isn’t that a positive? Except you only work under pressure. When there’s no stress or anxiety, you don’t know what to do.

So you designate yourself as the town Superhero instead. Who will help watch the kids? Who will save people from their own self-destructive habits? Who will be the voice of reason?

It has to be you. You have to save them.

And so, all those crazy feelings, all that trauma, anxiety, and pain — It gets pushed to the side. Put on the back burner.

You can’t do that now! You have to do this! This is way, way more important. How can you be so selfish to focus on yourself when other people need you?

Here’s a painful secret — You’re worth helping, too.