“Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts. I really do not care.” - Vladimir Nabokov
Love this!
“The more ‘talking’ they do, the more triggered the patient becomes, as they fall into constant rumination without relief.” - Unknown
I can see this in many people who come into my store, which is why I ask only the very basics and do not let the conversation ‘travel’.
@peter.s.james Great article! Thank you for posting.
Letting the “conversation travel” used to be called people skills in customer service roles. Perhaps the new paradigm of “gimme your money, here’s your stuff, now go” helps explain some of the missing civility in commerce nowadays.
Yes. I train interns as a hospital chaplain about patient visits. Guy doesn’t want prayer, or God talk. So… you just sit by him and keep him company, listen a while, connect a while longer. You find out about him being from Baltimore. You tell him the entire 1968 Baltimore Orioles line-up, because your boyfriend is a professional baseball player who knows the histories and made you learn them. Patient stops your story and takes it over, nodding. His eyes well up, you offer your hand – he takes it and squeezes back. He knows his Dad is with him now, in spirit, as he is about to go into surgery. You see, the game we happened to start talking about was the very game he had gone to with his Dad, when he was just a little boy, learning how to swing a bat. He’s connecting some dots in his own soul … and that’s what you do with people.
@thebeaver
Maybe “neurosis” became a neurotic rot with unbearable stench because no help is offered but all things to make it worse, it serves various agenda’s!
Not caring won’t solve the problem even if many have crossed the rubicon into zombieland.
LOL!, oh puuulease! I make no apologies for not triggering people who are drug addicts, noticeably anxious and needing a fix. I’ll let you wise posters knock yourselves out using your strategies in a bad neighborhood where people are armed in one way or another and you’re the only one at the counter. LMAO! You folks need a better tactics to chase me. Too obvious but thanks for the morning laugh!
Yeah, a drug pusher doesn’t need customer service, just the product. They’re already hooked and I didn’t do it so may as well make a few bucks. If I don’t, someone else will. I was thinking more along the lines of a traditional respectable vocational scenario.
Is every wokester a drug addict? I saw the article a tad broader. Sadly, among the zombified I see a lot off people that have no addiction at all! As I have remarked before, nobody is exempt from responsibility to addiction, neurosis or whatever your problem might be.
I have no affinity to addicts and leave that to other people that feel up to that challenge, but why such disrespect?