🙃 I know this was well-intentioned, but someone this evening literally told me,

"Well, the way I see it is that you're at rock bottom, but that's a good thing because you can only go up from here. How much worse could your life get than it already is?"

And, ah... mi gente?

Don't do that.

If you're not sure what to say, you don't need to try to give a pep talk.

It's okay to just sit with someone and be pleasant together instead.

We can talk about sportsball! Or Rocky movies! Or tardigrades!