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How Social Support Contributes to Psychological Health

By Kendra Cherry — 2020

It is social support that builds people up during times of stress and often gives them the strength to carry on and even thrive.

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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

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C. S. Lewis
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War

One night in 1967, twenty-six-year-old John Donohue—known as Chick—was out with friends, drinking in a New York City bar. The friends gathered there had lost loved ones in Vietnam. Now they watched as antiwar protesters turned on the troops themselves.

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John "Chick" Donohue, J.T. Molloy
2021
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Loving Your Friend Through Cancer: Moving Beyond “I’m Sorry” to Meaningful Support

“It’s cancer.” When you hear the two words you dread most from someone you care about, you know at once that your friend’s life has been turned upside down. Whether she’s a good friend, a best friend, or just an acquaintance, you want to be supportive.

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Marissa Henley
2025
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There’s a widespread belief that if you have solid self-esteem you don’t need outside affirmation and praise. This is patently untrue, by the way.

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Harriet Lerner
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.

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C. S. Lewis
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People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

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C. S. Lewis
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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

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C. S. Lewis
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

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C. S. Lewis
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

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C. S. Lewis
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There Is No Good Card for This: What to Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love

The creator of the viral hit “Empathy Cards” teams up with a compassion expert to produce a visually stunning and groundbreaking illustrated guide to help you increase your emotional intelligence and learn how to offer comfort and support when someone you know is in pain.

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Kelsey Crowe, Emily McDowell
2017
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