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Originally Posted by nomesque
Sad is harder. Do you go for the 'cry when you're crying' approach, or the 'cheer em up' approach, or the 'tell em how much worse things could be', or just tell them to get the hell over it?
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I try not to do the Pollyanna approach (aka things could be worse/other people have it worse than you) as I don't want to be smacked in the gob; which is my reaction when people do that to me.
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Originally Posted by recluse
I finally figured out, all on my lonesome, that if I vented the venom/ bad feeling, no matter what reaction I got, it helped shrink the big bad feeling.
The problem remains that what I vent is so tangled up and deeply rooted that I can rarely vocalize it in a clear manner. I just sound really crazy. Scare people crazy.
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If there's no-one around to vent at, I find writing things down and/or drawing the issues helps. Often, it helps more than venting to/at someone. Mostly because I don't do the "opening up to others" thing very well. At all.
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Originally Posted by montsnmags
For dessert, I had a slab of the locally made Lief Chocolate (the "three kinds" one...made by a couple of guys we know, live up in the hills behind Eumundi. High quality, lovely stuff, them and the chocolate  ). |
I'm on my way over
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There's none left but. 
Cheers,
Marc
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But there'll be more when we all arrive?
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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
I like that description, recluse. It explains why I spend so much time here too.
MR has a way of dissipating problems temporarily.
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