Dr. Edith Eger
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Right now, they're too young to listen to anything, but my great-grandson are...
15, 12, and 10, and they're very interested in grammar.
And I'm a very interesting person to be with.
I have a lot to say, and not what happens, it's what you do with it.
Exactly.
The existential vacuum.
Viktor Frankl used to refer to that.
And it's very important to know that it's not clinical depression.
Yeah, well, I had two paraplegics, both coming from Vietnam.
Same symptomatologist, same diagnosis.
I can't.
And one of them was in a kind of a fetal position.
Why me?
How could anyone do this to me?
Blaming God, blaming you name it, the country, of course.
Conversely, the other one said to me, same symptomatologist, same diagnosis, same prognosis.
He said to me, hey, doc.
I was wearing a white coat, and it said, Dr. Rieger, Department of Psychiatry.
Okay.
He says, hey, doc, I'm so grateful that I sit in a wheelchair because I can reach my children much closer.