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Your hardships and ranting and such, are you doing it for the purpose to gain insight to help yourself get out of your predicament? Or are you just ranting to rant? In other words, do you ever use the help others offer you ?

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A little bit of both, actually. A couple of months ago I was dealing with a bout of depression... I used to write posts about how I felt and how I had no hope. The comments I got really helped. Some offered words of encouragement. I think one of the things someone told me to do was to start journaling, which I did and it really helped.

And I think one of the most unintended effect was that sharing my pain helped someone else's with theirs. That was wonderful.