Okay I definitely agree with you in situations where people are being invalidating. Tone is hard to read on the internet. Personally I read that comment as re

Okay I definitely agree with you in situations where people are being invalidating. Tone is hard to read on the internet. Personally I read that comment as reassuring rather than invalidating. (Of course it wasn't directed at me). I get anxiety quite regularly and have battled depression since age 10 after experiencing something very traumatic. When someone manages to successfully reassure me, I'll take it. It can help break me out of my digging.