Hi, if you were a bitter person, what things do you like to hear from a friend o

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Hi, if you were a bitter person, what things do you like to hear from a friend or sort, or?

...what would make you happy even for a day? (I know someone bitter and I want to please him.)

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Listening, possibly nothing said. A shoulder, a hand an arm, a hug, a smile, or not. A little empathy or leave me alone.. You can sense and go with the flow. Job's visitors said nothing for three days until he spoke and then what they said was mostly all wrong. Understanding can be working it through in your own mind from where he is. Your sense of knowing the whole route back is a sermon without a word or few of them. They will work it out when they feel safe. It's a sense of their whole view of life being shattered and a new one has to be rebuilt. I found medication necessary, better prescription than not. Government sponsored Community clinics are usually cheap by income, but some people really balk at the thought. A lot of tact. Their in their own world. You can share it somehow, maybe feel or see it to an extent as you can. When you affirm them in your mind they sense it. "Let all your affairs take place with love." Skip the irrational thoughts, you affirm them more than their picture although contact with the emotions is the only way to work through them. It's a subject in the library, Emotional Intelliegence. It helps a lot. I thought Evelyn Kubla Ross' "On Dying" should be on everyone's list. I can't spell the name. If you can think of anything to help, you might ask if you can help. Since you can't it might be somewhat meaningless to ask or maybe not. Searching Yahoo Answers for simililar questions and problems can be great.