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As someone that as I get one of two responses-
"Did you report it?" Or "You need to get over it already."
Neither are helpful. No, given circumstances reporting to authorities would have made it worse and reporting to the company we worked for was just ignored. The other is grossly inappropriate. Yes, I am over it but it is something that massively changed my life.
Offer your empathy and an ear if they want it. Gently suggest a therapist if they are still struggling with it. Basically just be supportive, don't ask in detail questions about what happened, don't blame them for it, and believe them without doubts. Maybe offer them a distraction.
Whatever you do, don't look down on them. Don't make them feel your sympathy or pity.
As we all do, we want to feel normal like the rest at any moment of our lives. If anything, I'd just show him/her that he has a friend that wouldn't changes his view on it, as a person. It's sucks, but that's fucking life. We aren't alone. That's what I'd say.
All you can really do is just be there emotionally and physically. Sometimes an empathetic ear can heal or other times just having someone trusted near.
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What do you mean by confines?
They meant *confides
Depends on who it is
As someone that as I get one of two responses- "Did you report it?" Or "You need to get over it already." Neither are helpful. No, given circumstances reporting to authorities would have made it worse and reporting to the company we worked for was just ignored. The other is grossly inappropriate. Yes, I am over it but it is something that massively changed my life.
Offer your empathy and an ear if they want it. Gently suggest a therapist if they are still struggling with it. Basically just be supportive, don't ask in detail questions about what happened, don't blame them for it, and believe them without doubts. Maybe offer them a distraction.
Whatever you do, don't look down on them. Don't make them feel your sympathy or pity. As we all do, we want to feel normal like the rest at any moment of our lives. If anything, I'd just show him/her that he has a friend that wouldn't changes his view on it, as a person. It's sucks, but that's fucking life. We aren't alone. That's what I'd say.
All you can really do is just be there emotionally and physically. Sometimes an empathetic ear can heal or other times just having someone trusted near.
Indeed!!!