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A lot of good mental health is learning that it's okay to be proud of your accomplishments, even if they're "ordinary" ones.
So, like, I'm not going to hate on a soldier who was struggling with PT and then was able to pass a PT test.
So, like, I'm not going to hate on a soldier who was struggling with PT and then was able to pass a PT test.
I struggled a lot over the past 18 months or so, and something that exacerbated it was a spiral of self-hatred and shame when I was failing at things.
Turns out that's a symptom, not something helpful.
Turns out that's a symptom, not something helpful.
So, I'm not always good at it yet, but I'm starting to try to train my brain to allow myself to be proud of myself, even for little things. And it's helped, enormously.
Anyway, don't let others hate on you for being proud of your accomplishments, even if it's something as simple as making it through Basic Training. You're allowed to feel good about making it through something that was hard for you.
Some people are always going to be like "why are they even proud of having a baby, millions of people do that every day, their baby isn't even that cute" and all you can really do is mute/ignore and understand that their saltiness says much more about them than it does you.
