No worries. I actually favorited your comment above [0] because it really hits the nail on the head from what I've seen elsewhere on the internet. > You can't

No worries. I actually favorited your comment above [0] because it really hits the nail on the head from what I've seen elsewhere on the internet. > You can't just give yourself a smug little pat on the back for telling me to seek help as though that will fix my wretched life, it's not automatic, there's a whole art to actually obtaining psychiatric care that isn't designed to harm you. > Dude you think it's a simple matter of calling a hotline? Oh oh, just google the number! The contempt is unbelievable, if you wound up in a psych ward you'd never get out, never get respect from the staff, get drugged with whatever was in the medicine cabinet when you consented the least, never get any insights into working with the system and also plain working the system. You are exactly right. People telling others to simply "seek help" is condescending in a way. They might mean well but really it's just lip service, most who say this don't really care whether someone actually gets help, it's more of a way to simply remain civil, or in the worst case, to virtue signal that they want to help, even if in actuality they don't. I see this all the time on the internet and real life, it's simply not sincere most of the time. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31077733 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31077733