> enabling more sadness for themselves until something really bad happens To me, people invalidating your experience is way worse than discovering that other people share your view on some problem you're facing, even if it's a "depressing" one. People shoving unfounded positivity down your throat tends to have the opposite effect than desired. Btw, something really bad doesn't happen because someone reads what some stranger said on reddit (not including personal stuff like online bullying). Even directly saying "do something really bad" is no more likely to make someone do something really bad than saying "don’t do something really bad" is to stop them from doing it.