Crying in the car before the shift and still clocking in is a kind of strength nobody gives medals for.

Doing the thing anyway, after you have already been undone by it, is a strength that gets no recognition because nobody sees the first part. It is not the same as being unaffected. It is being affected and going in regardless, which is harder and more common than anyone admits. Plenty of people around you are doing a version of it.

If that was your morning, count it rather than being embarrassed by it. Take whatever small recovery the day allows: water, five minutes outside, a message to somebody. If it is most mornings, that is worth telling somebody, because a pattern is different from a bad day.