@NotWhoIUsedToBe to be fair idk how serious you are but the internet is safer than anything for a lot of kids

Just felt like you deserved to know that someone read this and is happy for you.

Thank you to everyone who responded. I appreciate the insight. My parents seem pretty chill, and to clarify, depression/self-harm is not me, it's someone I'm really close to. They were super cool about it though. Anyways, if you're actually reading this, thanks and have a good day/life/idk when or if I will ever talk to you again lol.

@AndSoWeCode Why are you so sure it's not? Because it is, as I said. lol speech 100

@AndSoWeCode What you seem to be doing is discouraging them from using this site to vent emotions, or, as you like to call it, whine. The thing is, they need some way to express/deal with the shit they're going through. No shit they're not in a good/healthy place right now, but typing out emotions on a site where people can empathize and provide answers in a tough time of their life is MUCH healthier than using alcohol to put the world aside. Telling them to suck it up is just going to make them A: tell you to fuck off or B: stop using this site and continue/worsen bad habits. Yes, they are currently spiraling into a constantly worse situation, but telling them to quit whining and gtfo just going to make it worse. Talking to people is one of the best ways to get out of a loop like that. Let them do that.

@AndSoWeCode

I'm not saying that you should be giving up or that anyone should be giving up. Yes, you should not seek problems. The thing is you are telling them what they are thinking and what they are feeling and what they should be feeling and fuck that like seriously I don't care if you're tough they're not even fucking ugh you don't have to force the fucking I don't even just when you say shit like your original comment, it really doesn't fucking help. I don't care if shaming yourself is the only way you can get shit done; I do have a similar system in cases. Forcing that system on other people Doesn't. Fucking. Help. They're not whining my god. Needing an outlet of people to talk to because you need a way to express your emotions is not 'whining.' Whining is when you are making a problem out of nothing, which if you think they're whining then you may as well be fucking god because you know them better than they do. Don't take this personally you sound like an okay person.

@AndSoWeCode

I see where you're coming from, and you're strong to be able to do that. Kudos.

The thing is, why does what you're doing work? Because the goals you are oriented to are contradictory to the self-destructive thoughts and win out. If you want to have a thriving life and career and have constant income and stay alive, like many do, then yeah it doesn't make sense do listen to those thoughts. You're looking at this like your basic goals are the basic goals of everyone. In other words, you're only writing your workaround for your OS. Not everyone works the same way, so trying to shove a solution on them because it 'works' for you and calling them stupid for not having tried it doesn't make sense. Sure, you can suggest it, but the old "just get it together" really doesn't work for everyone.

@AndSoWeCode

Would that have helped you?

@AndSoWeCode

Have you ever even been in that situation yourself? siiiigh

@xewl SocialInteraction doesn't have a good debugger...

@Stuxnet I put TL;DR's at the bottom because if someone is scrolling past it they might read that and because it seems more common. Upon looking up the issue, there's apparently a lot of debate... That is a good point though. *thinking*

@xewl Ooh that's a neat way to explain it. Also I can't tell if sarc but I'm not mad; I'm just curious lol.

@D3add3d Thanks for the explanation! I'll defo include TL;DR's in future posts but that means I'm waay too late for this one :/.

@QueenMorgana Sorry about the late reply. They made a folder called 111 or something and I found them in there. Yeah I'll defo post results but next class is in a few days :/ .

@-vim- Thankie?

@D3add3d Is it just me or does this site hide the edit button after a post stagnates for a bit? I'm glad to join this community. :)

@Stuxnet As long as you're learning...

Also C++ as an intro language... That's a fun time right there...

@Stuxnet Funny how we get the most out of classes that teach us possibly the least... My whole road started with a 30 minute demonstration of Scratch at my elementary school and then I started fiddling with Python after a dumb hour ish class/demo thing lol.

@Stuxnet That is... something... *virtual hugs* at least we all have access to the option of lowkey browsing Wikipedia/Stack Overflow/this site in the back of the class but that class sounds abysmal lol.