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IMO, the ‘just toughen up’ advice is people kind of giving up.

It’s not wrong per-se - just useless. If they could do that, they wouldn’t be in the situation! Like telling someone with PTSD to ‘just calm down’, or someone with an eating disorder to ‘eat normally’. If they could, they wouldn’t have the problem!



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