-- Posted by i love foamy at 1:11 am on Oct. 29, 2008 Why are people so freaking horrible to eachother!?! I dont get it. I really dont.   We are on a forum, a TEEN HELP AND SUPPORT FORUM. More specifically a TEEN DEPRESSION AND EMOTIONAL IMBALANCE FORUM. Look at the replies to most of the topics. These people come here cause they have a problem. They want help. Someone to talk to. Advise. So they spill their inner most secrets or even things that they wouldn't even tell their best friends and instead of help, support and advise they have people insulting them. Teasing, insulting and bullying them.   WHAT THE HELL!   Example: Someone posts a topic about cutting, maybe that they want to stop, or their parents have noticed or that they cut to deeply. Instead of helping and giving advise people abuse them. Telling them that they are attention seeking, Stupid and of that such.   Granted there are some amazing people here, who do actually take the time and generally care.   It trully makes me sick. How can people be so horrible?   Horrible to someone they dont know as well as what they have been through, who may have helped them in the past and who has done nothing to them. This is a depression and emtional imbalance help forum and people just talk shit to them and go out of their way to make them feel worse.   GRRRR.......... It really makes me sick. Please tell me im not the only one! -- Posted by SakuraFlower at 1:12 am on Oct. 29, 2008 Because some of those posters come off as attention whores. Or they blow their problems way out of proportion. I can feel very sympathetic for people who actually have problems, but sometimes you get threads that say something like.. OMG MY BF DIDN'T RETURN MY CALL /WRIST.. and it makes me sardonic. -- Posted by blufindr at 1:13 am on Oct. 29, 2008 It's the whole points thing, yo. -- Posted by Jman19 at 1:14 am on Oct. 29, 2008 Well said. Unfortunately, this is the internet, and depression forum or not, there are always going to be those who type things that they would never dare say in 'real life'. But I agree. -- Posted by i love foamy at 1:22 am on Oct. 29, 2008 Quote: from SakuraFlower at 6:12 pm on Oct. 29, 2008 Because some of those posters come off as attention whores. Or they blow their problems way out of proportion. I can feel very sympathetic for people who actually have problems, but sometimes you get threads that say something like.. OMG MY BF DIDN'T RETURN MY CALL /WRIST.. and it makes me sardonic. I understand that some of it sounds like silly reasons to be upset or whatever but shouldn't we still try and help? I mean if they do things like that for silly reasons then imagine what they would do if you abuse them. You don't know how much it effects them. Plus the forum is emotional IMBALANCE. And if they did something so extreme for a silly reason then they obviously have an emotional imbalance and need help. And even if they did it for attention reasons that is still emotional imbalance.... and is obviously a cry for help. I could understand if someone doesn't approve of someones method of madness. If they think that they are silly and a waste of time. So wouldn't it make sense to NOT reply? And if you did really think the person was just being an attention seeking "Whore" then wouldn't replying be validating them? You don't know how people react to situations, just because someone cant cope as well as others for what ever reason doesn't mean that their feelings aren't real and important.