But How Interesting Is Your Pain, Really? Dept.

There's a lot of damage in life for which the best prescription is "get over it", but I suspect a great many people don't want to hear that. (This was me once upon a time.)

Said folk know, on some level, getting over it is precisely what they need to do — but why would they vent and fume to others for so long, unless they were holding out for an exception to the rule? What they need is to get over it, but what theywant is for someone to come to them and say, "Yes, you're right, this is terribl...