5 bullshit pieces of advice that don’t help anyone (and 3 that do)

Victoria Suzanne
8 min readMar 14, 2021

Why your well-meaning platitudes may not be as supportive as you think

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As someone who suffers with depression, I’ve been given more than my fair share of unsolicited advice in my time on Earth. It’s got to the point where I don’t know why anyone bothers training to become a therapist anymore, given every Tom, Dick and Harry thinks they know how to fix…

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Victoria Suzanne

NCTJ-qualified journalist and editor. Follow my true crime publication @Crime-Scenes.