>no matter what it says there are many people who love you I hear this platitude all the time and I don't think that it's constructive. Disconnectedness and de

>no matter what it says there are many people who love you I hear this platitude all the time and I don't think that it's constructive. Disconnectedness and depression go hand in hand, in my experience. You may be blessed to have many people who love you, but a decent portion of the human population objectively doesn't, and can recognize it. So saying such a thing to a depressed person seems to run a high risk of rubbing their loneliness in their face.