Tuesday, October 9, 2007

What do you do?

What do you do when someone you care about is upset, and they don't even know what they're upset about? How do you help them?

3 comments:

Raising Them Jewish said...

I think this happens a lot. There are often moments when i don't know why I'm upset; but I am.

My suggestion is just to tell them you care, that they can call you anytime, and that it's okay to be upset...even if they don't know why.

Unknown said...

So, I feel like I'm sort of parroting what randomgirl said...

Tell them you care. Don't push them to "figure out" what's wrong.

Gridley said...

Sigh. The problem is that both as a medic and as an engineer I'm trained to seek out the causes of problems and solve them.

As an engineer I actually get paid for it, and as a paramedic I was trained to do it with people, even with emotional problems to some extent.