The Hardest Mayday

When you’re wired to solve your own problems, asking for help feels like failure. When you’ve built an identity around competence and control, needing support feels like weakness—even when you’d never judge someone else for it.

So they suffer quietly.

They carry the bad calls home.
They replay decisions in their head at 0300.
They sit in their truck after shift, not ready to go inside yet.

Not because they don’t trust their crew.