RULE 10
Give it time
Sometimes things go really wrong. Horribly, miserably, catastrophically wrong. When you go through a break-up or a bereavement or a natural disaster or a redundancy or some other traumatic event, it can be hard to see past the next few days or weeks. Often your mind struggles to cope with what has happened, and if the event was unexpected you might be in emotional shock for months.
Platitudes and clichés aren’t helpful at times like this, and it can be tempting to react angrily to anyone who tries to tell you that ‘time is a great healer’. You don’t want to hear it from other people because it suggests they’re trying to make you look ahead before you’re ready to, and therefore they don’t really understand what you’re going ...
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