JoshuaZ comments on Strategies for dealing with emotional nihilism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 11 October 2010 05:02:38AM 0 points [-]

If he has a psychologist then there's not much you can do directly to help. That's sort of their job. However, it may help to just be there for him. And when he says something that's obviously negative about himself and likely to be wrong, explain why it is wrong. That won't do much, but it might help a tiny bit.