[If you keep busy, the horrors can't catch you! It's a proven fact and it definitely always works.]

There's a lot of busywork you could be doing instead of dwelling on the past.

[The cliché would probably be to say something about "do you think your sister would want this for you?" but - that's just empty words, and who even knows what his sister would have wanted? She was young when she died. She might not have even had a concept of death.]

Do you need someone to make sure you don't fall off?