Always. I wasn't when I was younger and after I lost someone very important to me I changed. I started with first being honest with myself and then with everyone else. I lost people after that but it was an important life change.
Since then I've decided to just keep it that way bc tactful honesty is so much easier than keeping up with a bunch of deception and nonsense. It made my life so much easier and helps me get over myself faster.
I was my own worst critic...until I joined this site, seems there's one or two who don't like my opinions round these parts but that's ok nobody has yet come up with a good enough argument to make me question myself. Having said that I do enjoy the discussion (usually).