Do you think some people put themselves down constantly on here because they’re just looking for attention and sympathy from people?

In my personal experience it is the people that we often depend on put us in those places. Coming on here we seek validation, advice, any way to feel less shitty about ourselves. This place is a shelter for when we fall, or worse when the real world around ourselves forces us when there nobody there to come here. Getting attention on here is properly saving them from pointing a gun to the side of their head and blowing their own brains out.