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This one does exactly that. A figure who looks a little like Superman. Strong. Capable. Dependable. The kind of person everyone assumes can carry whatever life throws at them. Many people spend years trying to become that person. The reliable one. The strong one. The one who never complains. The one who keeps going. The one who holds everything together. At first, these roles can feel rewarding. People trust you. Rely on you. Need you. Over time, however, something else can happen. You become so busy being what everyone else needs that you lose touch with what you need yourself. The cape becomes part of your identity. You stop asking for help. You stop saying when something hurts. You stop admitting when you're tired. Not because you're strong. Because you've forgotten there was ever another option. Many of the people I meet in counselling are not struggling because they are weak. They are struggling because they have been strong for too long. They have spent years carrying responsibilities, expectations, worries, and pressures without ever putting them down. From the outside they often look like they are coping. Inside, they are exhausted. The difficulty is that people rarely congratulate us for being human. We are often rewarded for being useful. For being dependable. For carrying more than our fair share. Yet being useful and being well are not the same thing. At some point many people find themselves asking a difficult question: Who am I when I stop being the person everyone else relies on? That question sits underneath more struggles than we often realise. Stress. Burnout. Grief. Fatherhood. Relationships. Identity. Sometimes the problem is not that life has become too heavy. Sometimes it is that we have been carrying it alone for so long that we no longer know how to put it down. You do not have to be a superhero. You do not have to carry everything yourself. 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