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Catherine Mannix

Catherine Mannix

Jun 17, 2026

17:01
But talk to us about how you navigate around denial in a chat.
17:07
Okay.
17:07
So first of all, let's just say a few words about the importance of denial.
17:13
If you don't believe that there is a problem, if it's a complete mistake that the lung cancer on the X-ray is actually somebody else's X-ray, isn't mine, um, or the person who, um, went into forward gear instead of reverse gear in the car park at the supermarket and caused a disaster, it was because, I don't know, I was distracted.
17:36
It isn't 'cause I'm losing my ability to drive.
17:39
Can you relate? Um, it's not really a problem, and if you don't believe that it's a problem, you don't have to do any of the emotional processing of dealing with the problem.
17:51
So it's a fantastic, uh, emotional wellness tool, denial, and if you can maintain the denial, you don't have to feel any of the distress.

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I- do you have any thoughts on ways that the sandwich generation can look, can care for themselves during this?

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