For years, you have always been putting yourself aside in order to help those around you. No matter the time and no matter the place, you would drop everything in a heartbeat to be there when someone needs you. No ifs, and or buts about it. If someone needs you, you are there.

But suddenly, you have begun to realize how much you have neglected your own well-being for others. You have spent so much time making sure everyone else is happy, and okay, that you have seemingly glanced over the fact that you are neither of those. Well, at least not as great as you should be.

"I thought to help others made me happy, so why do I feel so unhappy?"

"Have I become so caught up in my need to be there for others, that I have not even been there for myself?"

All this time, you have been so caught up in being the one there for everyone else, that you never gave a second thought about yourself.

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Pause for one moment and really think. Helping others and being there for people may make you happy at the moment, but have you taken it to a point that you no longer consider your own well-being? Do you feel guilty when you have to say to tell someone that you can't be there for them? Are your priorities simply geared towards everyone else?

If you find this to be true, please understand that you have to start making your own mental and physical health a priority. You have done so much for people, and if they can't understand that you need to take care of yourself for once, they are not worth your time of day. You should not feel guilty about doing what is right for you.

It is not okay to neglect yourself.

You do not have to suddenly cut out helping others, that is a part of who you are and it makes you the amazing person you are. But if someone asks you for something and you have something going on yourself, do not try to hide that in order to be there for them. Think about what you need to do for you, and go from there.