A Bit of Optimism · 2026-09-22 · 62 min · 12,610 words

What Mentally Strong People Do on Their Worst Days with Psychotherapist Amy Morin

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You do not want to relive any of the things that you have lived, those tragedies. What about you has changed because of those things that deep down inside you're glad they happened? So I grew up incredibly shy, but probably as a kid could have been diagnosed with selective mutism. I didn't talk for years. And public speaking would have been my number one fear.

I give the eulogy at my husband's funeral. And in that moment, I was like, I don't care if I embarrass myself, if I stumble over my words, like I don't care how I sound, it's not about me. I've been through the worst of the worst. Yeah, negative review just doesn't do it anymore. Yeah, go ahead and do that.

I'm okay now. The mental health industry is booming. There's all kinds of therapists out there, some of them legitimate, some of them not. There's all kinds of advice being dispensed across social media. But here's a question.

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