Interesting stuff from our doctoring course:
-For thousands of years, people came from families with 12+ children, some of whom died before the age of 4. More died before the age of 24 or 25 from cuts and scrapes that got infected. If we were not able to deal with the grief of multiple losses of people we loved, if we were not hardwired to get through those times, we would be extinct. So thinking that you have to say exactly the right thing to get them through their grief is a bit ridiculous. If the world depended on you saying the right thing, it would be a sad world.
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2 comments:
That's a good, if sad, thought. It's nice that your profs seem to recognize the reality of grief. Not, "Sometimes people start getting really upset when you have to put their animal down. That's when you direct them to the front desk for billing."
I think it's a good point. Our "grief counselling" lectures consisted of stuff like, "encourage them to write down their feelings" or "let them know they have time to grieve." Not very helpful.
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