A lesson on grief: Do not pretend you hold privileged access to someone’s emotional reactions because of a similar life event.
You both suffer from bipolar disorder.
You both survived a physical assault.
You both experienced the death of a parent.
The unique parameters of difficult events begs for intellectual humility. I lost my mom at the age of 12 and …
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