Mental health progress doesn’t always look like a breakthrough

I think we sometimes set an impossible standard for what “getting better” is supposed to look like.

We expect the breakthrough.

The realization.

The morning where suddenly everything feels different.
But a lot of progress seems much less dramatic.
Getting out of bed slightly earlier.
Catching one negative thought before spiraling.
Taking a walk.

Responding differently during one difficult conversation.
Letting something remain unfinished without beating yourself up over it.

Having one bad day without deciding you’re back at square one.

I think those tiny changes are easy to dismiss because individually they don’t feel transformative.
But maybe that’s what actual change looks like most of the time.

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