Everyone is a mental health professional until it means actually helping someone.

I hope there comes a day when people stop assuming they understand each other's issues and start listening, really listening, like stfu and listen.

Nobody needs you to fix them.

Nobody needs your unofficial diagnosis and presumptuous solutions.

Stfu and listen, or you're part of the problem.

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FoxyQueen · 51-55, F

This is perhaps the most valuable comic that teaches people to ask what is wanted before assuming what is wanted.

ScreamingFox · 41-45, F

@FoxyQueen I agree, though I think I'm so used to people ignoring me or assuming they can understand and know what I need that I have disconnected from what I actually need.

People never ask those questions. People never participate in the emotional process, they just want you over it so they can get back to only thinking of themselves. In my experience so far anyway.

FoxyQueen · 51-55, F

@ScreamingFox You are correct. No one actually takes the time to just be with someone and listen without interjecting opinions and ideas. It's hard, but active listening is a vital skill for any relationship and it is often just ignored as a needed thing. It makes me sad to know that people don't want to invest more of themselves than providing input and nothing else.