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Here are 11 things to do when someone is struggling with a problem. Bringing up their past or making them feel guilty is certainly not one of them. Read on.
Here are 11 things (not) to do when someone is struggling with a problem. Bringing up their past or making them feel guilty is certainly not one of them. Read on.
When you share your joys they are supposed to double and when you share your problems, they are supposed to reduce. But, sometimes the problem you share can seem to be far worse than it did earlier, after you’ve shared it with someone. There are a lot of times you have been in situations, where you desperately want to be heard. You decide to either message a friend or pick up the phone to ‘talk’ or just chat on social networking sites/apps. The conversation ends up with you feeling utterly disappointed or even dismayed. You wish you had not let this person know what you were going through.
This could happen because you shared it with the wrong person. A ‘wrong’ person could be someone who could not hide his/her happiness as it made them feel good, deep down, about being better off than you or they could not bear to see your happy state otherwise. It may be someone who only wanted some free entertainment and something to gossip about later.
Sometimes, you may open up to someone who inadvertently says all the wrong things without meaning to make you feel worse off.
Sometimes, you may open up to someone who inadvertently says all the wrong things without meaning to make you feel worse off or simply isn’t aware of little things which could be avoided to make a huge difference.
If a friend, family member or someone you just met decides to confide in you, here are 11 simple things to remember which will help putting that smile back.
Only after your friend knows they have been fully heard, give them a hug (even a virtual one will do) and then offer solutions or options, leaving them alone to make a decision.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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