Spend five minutes with any random person and you soon realize that humans are goddamned horrible at talking to one another. And this is never more apparent than when we’re trying to help someone in crisis.
When a friend or family member is down, we usually have a few stock replies that sound good because we’re pretty sure somebody said them to us in the past, or maybe we heard them in a movie. Strangely, we know that when we’re on the receiving end of this generic advice that it’s about as helpful as a Windows error message, but we just can’t help it. I mean, what else are you going to say?
5:”You Just Need to Watch What You Eat! (or Drink, or Smoke, etc)”
“Just.”
Stick it near the beginning of some advice, and you can turn someone else’s vicious lifelong struggle into a trivial task they should feel ashamed for not having…
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