I don't know who needs to hear this, but mental health is real. Burnout is real. I'm going through it right now and it is HARD. It is so hard to function, to take care of yourself and do your basic household chores, to feed yourself and make sure you're getting enough sleep, to go to work with the expectation that you will be 100% mentally present, all the while your brain is giving you constant pushback and background noise and judging you by how little you're actually able to contribute because you've got all of these other ongoing problems living rent free in your head, and it's so loud and so mentally exhausting that you can't solve any of them. And I want you to know that it does not make you any less of an adult if you have to ask for help during times like this, or to express that you need accommodations so that you can recover from whatever is exhausting your brain so much that 👏🏻 you 👏🏻 cannot 👏🏻 function. And I get it, it's hard to admit things like this because you certainly don't want to put anyone out, but bb, if you don't speak up, you're going to reach a breaking point, and no one wants to see someone they love get so bad that they end up hospitalized. So please speak up.
Mental illness is real, and it does not make you any less of a person to admit that you are struggling.














