Dr. Eric Bender
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detailed with a patient.
I might say something like, they might say, I just lost my so-and-so.
And I say, I'm terribly sorry.
That sounds awful.
And then they might keep talking and I'll say something like, you know, I know from personal experience and from seeing lots of people, I'm seeing you, this must really hurt.
Like I leave it at that.
They don't need to know which family member I lost or the details.
Cause that, that becomes more about me.
But in that case, there's a way to do it so that they have something that makes them see, oh, he gets it.
And that seems appropriate.
Yes, especially grief.
I mean, everybody responds to grief differently.
If you lost a loved one, for some people, they don't even acknowledge it for six months.
Or for some people, they're angry.
Others are sad.
Others will tell me, my bad person, I don't feel sad.
So my experience has nothing to do with their experience.
I think it can go both ways.
Are you trying to do this gratuitously to get 183 million views in a month?
Or are you actually showing this because you can show people that there's grief and people grieve.