What you’re going through is real. It’s also not the last page.

Two things are true at once and people usually offer only one of them. Minimizing what is happening does not help, and neither does treating the current state as permanent, because a bad stretch is both genuinely bad and genuinely a stretch. Holding both is harder than picking a side and considerably more accurate.

You do not have to feel hopeful to keep going. Do the next small necessary thing, eat something, tell one person the truth about how it is. The situation is allowed to be as heavy as it is, and it is still not the whole story.