Last week, I was speaking with one of my patients with two young children. She confessed that she has been nothing but miserable during the pandemic and doesn’t believe others are as unhappy as she is.
I assured her that many, many others are as unhappy as she is, but she remained unconvinced. She eventually asked me, “Well, what about you?
I mean, your job is to make people feel better. Are you unhappy right now?” Let me pause here to note that patients don’t typically ask me personal questions about my own emotions.
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