START WHERE YOU ARE
Mi Tired Fi Pretend
Emotional exhaustion and smiling through pain.Keeping up the version of you that everybody expects can take plenty energy.
Laughing, working and answering “mi good” do not prove that everything inside feels okay.
Sometimes this may look like
- Smiling automatically while feeling disconnected inside
- Avoiding the second question because the real answer feels too large
- Holding everybody else together while privately running out
- Feeling relief when you no longer have to perform
Small next steps
- Choose one person around whom you can be ten percent more honest.
- Give yourself one period today when you do not have to appear cheerful.
- Replace “mi good” with one true sentence.
- Notice which people or places make pretending feel necessary.
THE NEXT TEN MINUTES
One thing yuh can do now.
Send one safe person this message: “I know I seem okay, but I have been having a harder time than people realise. I do not need you to fix it. Mi just need somebody fi know.”WHEN MORE SUPPORT MAY HELP