Has being told to "get over it" ever helped you get over it?

In my experience, it means the person saying “get over it” just isn’t interested in being helpful. That unto itself though is helpful as now I know not to rely on that person.

Lol no. “Get over it” is said for the benefit of the person saying it, not for the person it is being said to. There have been times where I’ve had to tell myself to get over it and that has helped, but it hearing from someone else doesn’t have that effect because the person saying it means “I’m tired of your complaining, so shut up”.

Sure, if “get over it” means work on moving forward improving what you can, not dwelling on the past which cannot be changed.

Pick yourself, dust yourself off…

Never. not once in my life.

Someone once told me to get over it.
I got over his body.

I agree with both sides as being possible, depending on the circumstances.

If I know someone who is still whining about an ex who broke up with them, well after the fact, I honestly feel they need to drop it, for theirself, and anyone who has to hear their lamentations. Even if this ex decided to take them back, who wants someone who already dumped them once?

If you lost your business through some uncontrollable situation such as the mandatory shutdowns, and now your home is at risk, this is not something to get over. It is something to address, and worry propels one towards solution, to some extent.

It doesn’t help me get over it.

If it isn’t extremely upsetting it might cause me to stifle my feelings. Depending who it is coming from I might handle it ok, or I might be upset by it.

If it is something extremely upsetting to me, someone saying get over it will feel dismissive and make me feel angry and run over. By run over I mean it can actually feel physical, like a truck ran over me or a rape.

I never used that term. I find “Onward through the fog”, “Keep on truckin’” or ” When the going gets tough, the tough get going” are more effective and less offensive.

“Get over it” is nothing more than an insulting dismissal. How could it possibly help anyone?

A family is sitting around a loved one in hospital who is dying. A cousin comes in and starts complaining about how hard it was to find parking. Then comes the complaint that the vending machine coffee sucks, and so forth.

In this case, I see a dismissal as beneficial.