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Hi, guys, and welcome to another new episode of Couch Talks on Unite Therapy podcast.

My name is Kat, and Couch Talks is the special

bonus episode of Unite Therapy where I answer questions that you guys send to me, and you can send

those to me through email at catherine at Unitherepepodcast.com. Now, as always, this podcast never serves as a replacement or substitute for actual

mental health services, although these things that you learn and hear and experience might

help you along the way in your journey to figuring out what you need and might help you

along the way in figuring out if you want to go to therapy or what

you want to talk about in therapy and all of that. So they can be helpful, but these aren't actual

mental health services. Now, as always, couch talks, I try to keep it on the format of reading

one listener question and then talking about it and give some feedback and insight and maybe

offer some questions

that might help whatever it is that the listener is writing into me with. And sometimes I go

off the format and sometimes I just do what I want. But today for the second week in a row,

we are going to stick on that. So I am going to read a email that I got from a listener and then we're going to talk about

it. So here is an email. Hey, Kat, one of my close friends has a habit of always trying to find a

bright side when it comes to the rest of us going through something. For example, I recently

found out that I didn't get a job I wanted and And her response was, at least you still have a job.

And another friend broke her leg and will be in a cast for the summer. And she said, well, at least you

won't have to have surgery. I'm absolutely sure she means well. She is one of the nicest people you could

ever meet. And she'd be horrified to think that this positivity is at the least bordering on toxic and is not being

received in the way that I'm sure she means it, which is why I have no idea how to approach it with

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