Top 5 Worst Pieces of Advice (from people who don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about)

Coco Densmore
Nov 5, 2023

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  1. Think positive! (Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps!)
  2. You need to forgive your father and __________ and _________ and ________. (Have you ever watched Joyce Meyers? She went through what you went through and she forgave her father and she’s fine now.)
  3. You need to pray more. Give it to Jesus! Lay it at the foot of the cross!
  4. Those medications aren’t good for you. (Have you tried exercising? Do you take B Complex? Are you Vitamin D deficient?)
  5. Did you really want to kill yourself? Or did you just want attention? (Ok, that’s not advice. It’s just about the shittiest thing you can say to someone who suffers from mental illness.)

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Coco Densmore

Coco Densmore writes about Embracing Her Single, being HSV-2+, living with bipolar mental illness, and overcoming childhood sexual abuse. www.cocodensmore.com.