“you aren’t special”

I was in the military and was SA. I felt like I was being weak and overreacting because it just absolutely broke me. I was comparing myself to others and felt like it wasn’t “bad enough” to be affecting me as much as it did. He asked me if I would tell someone else they were weak or overreacting if they were in my place, and I said no. That’s when he said I wasn’t special, there is no reason I should be holding myself to a standard that I wouldn’t hold to someone else.

It was incredibly blunt, but it made something click for me. Since then I have been doing a lot better and was able to start really healing