Support swamp

I joined this online support group for people with depression. Someone posted about loneliness. The group moderators were like "Yeah loneliness causes depression and depression makes it hard to get out of isolation." There was this huge discussion thread about how awful loneliness is when you're depressed and how it's this huge cyclical problem. I was like, what the fuck? There are like 20 of us here bitching about being lonely, so why should we be lonely if there are 20 of us right here with the same fucking problem? Ding ding ding ding???

So I finally said, "well if you ever want a listening ear, if you'd like a new friend in your life, you can direct message me."

And the mods were all, "no no, that's against the rules! If you try to do that again you'll be removed from the group!" And all the depressed lonely people were like 'yayyyy thank you for defending us from the awful predator who tried to befriend someone who said she wished she had friends! You're our fucking savior!'

Does anyone not see the problem here?

'We are all here because we have the same problem. Literally all we need to greatly improve the problem is each other. But solving the problem is against the rules. We'll all just sit here bitching until we die instead because that's so much safer.'

Okay, have fun, you bunch of brainwashed losers.

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anonymous Other February 22, 2026 at 12:40 pm 0 0