When everyone is used to you being the strong one, you stop being a priority to the people around you, they believe that you can handle yourself. When actually, those people that carry it so well are the ones that need help most cause they’re too scared to ask for help, they think it would ruin the ”strong” exterior that they have but there’s nothing wrong with removing the mask sometimes. It’s not a sign of weakness, you think acting tough and strong will add to your value? or so that you can meet the expectations of being strong. That people set for you when it’s all in your head, there are no “expectations” to be met. Who even gets to decide that you can handle it on your own or not? No one, no one but yourself it’s okay to not be okay which I know sounds cliche but sometimes you have to hear it to realise that you are NOT WEAK for showing how you feel! The thing is cause we dodge those feelings and avoid them they start to come out in different forms, such as unexplained anger or irritation from small irrelevant things the over sensitivity, all of that are just feelings that you accumulated inside of you disguised. That dodging and avoidance of feelings result in us not even knowing how to express ourselves anymore, we just bottle our feelings up till it overflows and it’s just a messed up cycle.