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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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Pretzel · 70-79, M
one of the neatest things I have learned in live (and sometimes actually use it) is to not say "I know now you feel"

No I don't

I can't

You tell me
ScreamingFox · 41-45, F
@Pretzel Thank you because I HATE that. My ex always used to say that he understood how I felt and he and I both knew very well that he absolutely didn't. I guess they think it's helpful to relate but it just makes the support seem even more fake.