Quote: from howaboutsno at 9:57 pm on Jan. 8, 2009
perhaps alot of people responding saying "i am in the same position as you" can help the person feel like less of a hopeless rogue case that nobody can fix. I know that I am not always constructive, but I try to help.

I'd disagree. Alot of the time they just pull away from those people. They either pull away or both talk about how shitty they feel.
Person A: "I'm so depressed and I feel like no one gets it :("
Person B: "I feel the same way, you just gotta live it day by day"
Person A: "But it's so hard to"
Person B: "I know, believe me I attempted suicide. I still feel like shit alot of the time."
Great, now we've established both parties feel like shit alot of the time. They can relate to eachother with that. It actually may even promote the first or second person to feel like it's okay to feel like shit all the time. I mean all these other people feel like shit all the time, maybe the first person just belongs to a class of people that were destined to feel shitty?
Thats just all a snowball of poisonous thoughts that doens't solve the problem. What a depressed person REALLY needs is somebody who can tell them how to climb out, not somebody to sit in the hole with.