Talk:Speak for Yourself/@comment-26097843-20150212030038/@comment-31077845-20170131123132

This particular teen has supernatural powers of suggestion, so I think that makes her different.

But seriously, it's a little arrogant to assume that what works for you works for everyone. Yeah, I was a depressed teen too. Hell, I was shooting dope by the time I was a junior in high school. I had a suicide attempt at 19. I've been through rehab and I've been homeless and seen rock bottom, and as a person who has been through it so much and studied it so much I could hold my own against many professionals at this point, I can say that how much letting people in helps is 100% dependent on the person and who one is opening up to, as many people, espcially those who haven't expeirenced it themselves (in order to take the courses required to become a psychologist and some related professions it's often a requirement that you had been in therapy at some point yourself) they can just make it so much worse, doubly so if you happen to be fairly introverted.

There's a reason people have to go through training to become psychologists and therapists have to be certified, and it's because if it was as god damned easy as "Just tell people about your problems!" we wouldn't need any of those people. But of course, you're a young teenager. I'm sure you think you're just the smartest cookie to ever grace the earth and you have it all figured out. So you go on thinking that and everyone else will go on patting you on the head and ignoring you.