great response dear. so powerful that your daughter knows you so well!! you've raised a good one!!

i hear you on this. sometimes emotions can get so messy and sharing them isn't always conducive to just getting through life. and yeah, how much can people really help us? sometimes things like depression (in my experience) can be helped by talking about it or sharing, but other times it can feel so pervasive, amorphous and ongoing, it can seem pointless to share it, or burdensome even to focus on it further.

it's a great question and i think however we are with our emotions, it's great to be kind to ourselves in the midst of that and accept and love ourselves <3 great answer!!