My pet hated phrase is “God won’t give you anything you can’t handle.” What is it supposed to mean? That you can handle anything? That if there is something you can’t handle, you can assume that that thing magically won’t happen to you? What about people who have mental breakdowns in response to trauma? Is that just one way of “handling it”? What about people who commit suicide? I can’t help but think that the people who say this phrase have merely been lucky and never had anything horrible happen to them. Similar feelings about “Everything will work out in the end.” “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” is another one I don’t get. If I get in a horrible accident and I am not killed, but am paralyzed, I am not stronger for that. I might be mentally stronger eventually, but it’s like the people who say this phrase think that when something awful like that happens to a person, they just very quickly learn to cope with it, and are net better off afterwards than if it hadn’t happened. I don’t think people who say this phrase understand that trauma hurts people for a long time or even permanently, and leaves damage and scars, and that not everybody “gets over” everything that happens to them.