I loved Nancy McWilliams discussing this part of her personality:
"In my personality, I'm invested in, “Bring it on. I can tolerate it. And if you're trying to be nice to me because I would fall apart, I feel insulted.”
I called everybody the day after [my first husband] died and said I'd had a death in the family and I was going to take three weeks off, and then we would resume in such-and-such a time. And I had a lot of patients who would come in and they'd go, “Oh, how can I talk to you about my trifling problems when you're going through this bereavement?” And I pretty much had to say to them, “Listen, I really appreciate that you want to take care of me at a bad time for me, but if you really want to take care of me, let me do my job.” Yeah. So, I react badly to patients who think I'm fragile and they have to leave certain things about themselves undisclosed with the rationalization that I couldn't bear them.
My current husband complains about this a lot because he will do something for me, and I'll say, “Did I ask you to do that? No.” Because I immediately think "he thinks I need that?!". I've gotten better over time. But he's also gotten good at saying, “I have an idea that I think might be helpful for you. Do you want to hear it?”"
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عاجل من الأرجنتين 🚨🇦🇷
السبب الحقيقي وراء الإنهيار العاطفي للاعبي الأرجنتين قبل مباراة إسبانيا هو أن ميسي فاجأ زملاءه داخل غرفة الملابس بإعلانه أن هذه ستكون آخر مباراة له بقميص المنتخب
ومع تأثر اللاعبين الشديد، ظل ميسي يطالبهم بالهدوء، ونسيان المشاعر مؤقتًا، والتركيز على المباراة قبل دخول أرضية الملعب