Research backs this up: unbridled positivity in an experience of failure or distress makes people feel worse, not better. What ours and the experience of many others also confirms is that putting a positive spin on something difficult usually winds up feeling like an effort to get the griever to stop talking about it, making the griever shut down (and stop calling you).
-- Kelsey Crowe and Emily McDowell, There Is No Good Card for This, p. 205
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