Worst thing you can do in most mental health scenarios (dumped, relative died, feel down) is let people wallow alone.
Instead of building grit/character/coping mechanisms/community, we're breeding solitude & victimhood.
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We've become too casual about the terrible messages we send people, enfeebling, immobilizing & crippling them.
All this talk about "empowerment" but we do the opposite.
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