People you tell will make comparisons. They will compare you to everyone else they have heard of who has experienced something similar, and they will rate how you are doing according to that metric. Are you more or less functional than their college roommate? Are you more or less sexual than that one woman at the office? Are you thinner or fatter than the other survivors they know, does it sound like something they heard about on TV, did they read a book about it, can they tell their partner about it over dinner that night as a sad story and shake their head? They will want details, as many
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