You are correct. It’s petty nonsense. If the message is clear, that’s all that matters.
wow so grammer no longer matters i guess that means that this post is perfectly easy for you to read and follow and get what im saying with absolutely no problem thats great think about all the time i will save by not having to ever use that pesky shift key again ohwhatthehecklletsjuststartnotusingthespacebareitherbecuasethatwouldbeokaytooiguess :rolleyes:
As far as saving people goes… it’s not the responsibility of this board to provide therapy-- there are plenty of other venues on the internet for that. Sometimes folks do tell their stories or rant and are comforted by others. It does help to stick around for a bit before rolling out with that sort of crusade.
That was actually quite readable.
Wow, dial back the intensity. How old are you, if I may ask? There is another board I used to frequent when I was younger, and it was called The Despair Faction. This might be a better thread for that board.
A big difference between the situation that you (the OP) describe as having gone through personally and what you are proposing here is that these are just words on a screen being exchanged between virtual strangers; while you had an actual flesh and blood friend upon whose shoulder you could cry. That is not to say that we don’t care here at the Dope but there is only so much humanity that can be transmitted online.
This board is a lot like a hedgehog. Covered in pricks.
No, wait! I mean…we’re collectively a prickly hard to please bunch that will hurt you (mostly accidentally) if you reach out too fast, but if you get to know us by reading a lot and posting a little, we relax and you find out that we have a mooshy soft fuzzy underbelly.
Some people have the patience for the process, some don’t. Those that don’t tend to wander off and find other boards.
I hope you stick around a while. After you’ve been here some time and earned some trust from the other Dopers, you’ll find out we actually do open up quite a bit. Some people then begin to complain that we overshare!
I look forward to getting to know you better. 
ewww, TMI on the mooshy soft fuzzy underbelly! Way too much info!
I want to pet it.
Her SD profile says she is 14 and into emo music.
That picture is actually quite therapeutic if you’re having a bad day. 
We used to have high standards here. Board never should have changed to free.
No, we’ve never really had higher standards here. We did seem to be more welcoming at one time though.
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I will hereby ignore you until you find the SHIFT key, and begin to use it appropriately. However kind-hearted you may be, you are not e.e. cummings.
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Admittedly, the word “irony” is often over-used and used incorrectly, but I think this username-post combo is a pretty good example of irony.
That is a pretty rank opinion to take. 
Now that I know how young the OP is, I better understand where she is coming from. I too was a very depressed teenager, and just reaching out is important.
OP, just a heads up, most of the posters on here are out of their teens, and a few are curmudgeonly old fogies. Probably not the best place to try and get people to be sympathetic.
Yes, that is exactly what I didn’t say.
Oldies, then!
Not really no.
A listening friend is better than a paid piece of ear, generally speaking. And psych meds are NOT the fix-all and cure-all that the pharma industry and psych establishment and NAMI would all have you believe. Most of them are risky chemicals with very questionable outcome-to-damage-done ratios. Not to mention what being labeled with a psych diagnosis does to a person socially and culturally and legally.
“Professional help” and "“proper medical attention” do not in any way equal “psych meds” pushed by “the pharma industry.” Also, “a listening friend” might help, but might equally likely say exactly the wrong thing too. That’s why professional training can be so valuble.
Look, I’m all for proper capitalization and punctuation and spelling and all that stuff that makes posts more readable, but can we wait until a new poster’s second or third thread before jumping all over them about it?