Asking Eric: Was cousin trying to be helpful when he predicted I’d soon be permanently disabled?

A person is struggling with a bleak premonition from a cousin who predicted they would soon become permanently disabled. The cousin also claimed that the individual's seventy-five-year-old mother would die suddenly. These predictions have compounded the person's life stress and remain difficult to forget. Despite not being a doctor, the cousin shared these debilitating forecasts, leading the affected individual to seek advice from R. Eric Thomas regarding how to handle these distressing claims.