A tangent of this can be found in more serious efforts at suicide prevention. You are strongly exhorted in these situations to avoid saying things like "it get

A tangent of this can be found in more serious efforts at suicide prevention. You are strongly exhorted in these situations to avoid saying things like "it gets better"-- because you don't know that it will, and saying this can make things worse for the suffering. [I've argued with moderators about how much this rule need be enforced in more casual forums open to the public, but the answer is definitely more than zero.] People who are ready to end their lives sometimes just want to voice their grievances and not much else, at least initially. There are many parallels between this and other kinds of critical situations faced by individuals or institutions.