I was going through a very low period while in the process of being diagnosed with a life-long, chronic illness. I was also trying to maintain work, build a company, and pretending nothing was happening even though I couldn’t get out of bed most days.
I was told by my one of my business partners to just “stop being so sad.” I chalked it up to a joke or ignorance until I found out he has personal family experience with bipolar depression, and persistently and not-jokingly continued to tell me this as if it were an actual solution.
He genuinely thought he was being helpful. This was one minor struggle to overcome with the entire experience.How did you overcome this experience?It got to me.
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