Resilience | Mental Health Strategies

Tell Me About Your Worst Day Ever

Elisabete Gonçalves da Silva
ILLUMINATION
4 min readApr 9, 2022

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Monção — Portugal — Red Heart with a Smiling Girl in a black dress
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Imagine getting a call from your kid’s school and finding out he has been hurt. Awful.

Imagine he never tells how it happened and, eventually child services take him away… Does it get worse than that?

But that is not even what this is about. We will come back here later on.

Intense workday (as usual).

You work for someone else but you are also self-employed and, after your job you have to go shopping for lamps, duvet covers,… and go to your hotel to assemble them, put the ones you can in guestrooms and return home to cook dinner and try to chill out.

Two Black Dishes with Pasta Shrimp and Broccoli
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At home, you get to discover your bed has been peed on… Cats are very tidy animals but you made sure they had a clean litter that morning!

Maybe they thought it was too late?

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