It’s funny; so many of these things I learned as an adult as a product of Less Than Good Times and I wish I’d known them as a teen. Probably would have helped if I’d had decent role-models rather than having to self-parent for most of my life. Perhaps the biggest lesson was, “your feelings are valid”. How you choose to express and act upon them is variable, but you always have the right to feel how you feel and no one has the right to tell you otherwise.