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I heard an analogy ago from a grief counselor that's stuck with me
Just going along with the general way we think of mental illness (including acute mental distress, "mental injury") in moral terms the way we don't with physical illness or injury
Just going along with the general way we think of mental illness (including acute mental distress, "mental injury") in moral terms the way we don't with physical illness or injury
Why do we make these determinations of how much you're "allowed" to be hurt by something in the emotional or psychological sense
When we all know in the physical world it's a matter of sheer dumb luck
Why is it a referendum on how worthy you are as a person
When we all know in the physical world it's a matter of sheer dumb luck
Why is it a referendum on how worthy you are as a person
There are people who fall out of a damn airplane and their parachute doesn't open and they smash into the ground in an open field, and they live
There are people who slip and fall in the shower and instantly die
It's random, it's all these unknowable factors of physics
There are people who slip and fall in the shower and instantly die
It's random, it's all these unknowable factors of physics
There is an *average* length of time it takes to recover from trauma, maybe, but not really a *normal* one
The variance is extreme, and unpredictable
Some people seem to recover very quickly, and are "back on their feet" in a month
Some people *never* recover
Either one is ok
The variance is extreme, and unpredictable
Some people seem to recover very quickly, and are "back on their feet" in a month
Some people *never* recover
Either one is ok
People in Group A aren't unfeeling bastards who never loved the person they lost
And people in Group B aren't delicate snowflakes who don't deserve to be coddled
You never know what kind of reaction you'll have until it's your body hitting the ground
And people in Group B aren't delicate snowflakes who don't deserve to be coddled
You never know what kind of reaction you'll have until it's your body hitting the ground
