There is a difference between being taken out of a difficulty and being made able to bear it, and the second can feel like the first was refused. From the inside, growing endurance is indistinguishable from being ignored. Only later do you notice you are carrying something you once could not lift.

In a long hard stretch, take a measure of yourself rather than of the situation. Compare how you handled it in the first month against now. Change in that direction counts, even when nothing external has moved.