Transitive emotional help
It seems today that 4 separate people talked with me on various subjects, all of them fairly sad and depressed in respective ways. Not that I don't care.. but... I really can't quite fit my head into these sorts of situations. I'd like to be helpful and useful, but if I can't get my head around it, I can't really be much help. I'm a happy-bouncy sort of person, and this sad-depressed sort of feeling isn't one I'm very used to. So forgive me if I can't quite put myself in your place...
I'll happily help people with random technical queries, getting things to work, that sort of thing. But somehow I'm not really very good at the emotional support stuff. I can listen and nod and so on, but that's about it really. I usually just don't know what to say.
You'll note also that this puts an interesting social/emotional issue on me, that I can't help with it. Were it any other issue, I could simply ask myself what to do. But; ahh... catch 22. So maybe someone else might be able to offer me some advice here?
I'll happily help people with random technical queries, getting things to work, that sort of thing. But somehow I'm not really very good at the emotional support stuff. I can listen and nod and so on, but that's about it really. I usually just don't know what to say.
You'll note also that this puts an interesting social/emotional issue on me, that I can't help with it. Were it any other issue, I could simply ask myself what to do. But; ahh... catch 22. So maybe someone else might be able to offer me some advice here?