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How Do You Go About Comforting Others?

Do you like to cheer them up, let them feel the emotions, give them space, or remind them it could always be worse? Something else?

I always aim for validating the person's feelings. I'm defo more on the side of letting a person have their emotions without trying to cheer them up or minimize because I believe it's important to experience emotions instead of bottling them up.
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HannahSky · F
Be there for them. Find out what they need from me.
@HannahSky finding out what they need is a really solid idea. "What can I do?" as opposed to just going "let me know if there is anything I can do." :) Avoids putting pressure on the person.
HannahSky · F
@Perspectivedetective definitely and let's the person know you know they can say what they need.