Welcome to Thursday Coffee Hour. This is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you. Now that the political races are over for a bit maybe we can do without the platitudes that pass for reasoned thought. The dictionary defines platitudes as a remark or statement, especially one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful.
You hear them in real life too. Recently a Doctor told me that I had severe tendinitis in my left elbow and try not to use it. He did have the good grace to remark a moment later that being a caregiver that it probably wasn't possible for me to take that advice. I get bad tension headaches and have been told not to get stressed. I am a caregiver to a 100% disabled brother. I'm living on Social Security. I have family that depends on me for a ton of things since I am now the eldest in the family. So how am I suppose to get rid of stress?
The question is how do you get around it when you are handed a platitude. In the first case I was lucky and the Doctor remembered that I am a caregiver to someone in a wheelchair. He apologized for the original advice and told me that since there was also arthritis in addition to the tendinitis that it was going to be difficult for it to heal anytime soon. Being a caregiver means stress is not going away. I do what I can but eliminating it completely is not going to happen.
How do you handle it when people mouth off idiotic advice and platitudes?