The post discusses the struggle between desiring success and the need for satisfaction, particularly for individuals dealing with mental health issues. It highlights how trauma can hinder achievement, affecting self-esteem and confidence. The author encourages mental health fighters to forgive themselves for not meeting their success expectations, emphasizing understanding and compassion.
Everybody knows that they should be satisfied with what they have.
And yet they (including me) seek more success and more achievements.
And the funny thing is they can’t suppress their desire for success by telling themselves to be satisfied. No one can.
If you want success and you are not satisfied, don’t force yourself to be satisfied.
But sometimes, especially in the case of mental health fighters, one cannot fulfill all of their desires of success because of their traumatic mental illness related experiences and the time it takes to heal through medicines and counseling.
It’s like a handicap situation.
The hardships that people with mental illnesses go through leave them in a situation from where it’s difficult to achieve success with the same energy and force as before the mental illness.
Their self-esteem is damaged. Their self-confidence is damaged. Plus there are the symptoms of their specific mental illnesses.
And it takes a lot to have just a little success let alone more success.
So mental health fighters need to forgive themselves if they can’t do certain things or if they can’t perform at the level that’s required for achieving their expectations of success.
That’s what I wanted to write in this blog post.
Thank you for reading this blog post. And please comment if you struggled with mental illness and how you feel about success and satisfaction?
