This kind of rhetoric makes people who aren't depressed feel better, but it's kind of anathema to a depressed person if you tell them essentially that:
1. Their feelings aren't valid, not even a little bit. In other words if they have an objection to what you're telling them they know darn well there's no point in voicing it.
2. You come off as out of touch with reality. Sometimes the world is shitty, and sometimes the world is shitty in ways that make us feel shitty. And yes, sometimes the world is shitty in ways that make people who are predisposed to feeling like shit for no good reason feel even worse.
If you feel like everything is worthless and you have nothing to lose, somebody telling you that everything is happy rainbows is quite the opposite of helping. They're not meeting you where you are so much as coming at you from a place so foreign and distant it seems like they're on drugs. A lot of suicide prevention is deciding not to kill yourself today so you'll live to see tomorrow.
1. Their feelings aren't valid, not even a little bit. In other words if they have an objection to what you're telling them they know darn well there's no point in voicing it.
2. You come off as out of touch with reality. Sometimes the world is shitty, and sometimes the world is shitty in ways that make us feel shitty. And yes, sometimes the world is shitty in ways that make people who are predisposed to feeling like shit for no good reason feel even worse.
If you feel like everything is worthless and you have nothing to lose, somebody telling you that everything is happy rainbows is quite the opposite of helping. They're not meeting you where you are so much as coming at you from a place so foreign and distant it seems like they're on drugs. A lot of suicide prevention is deciding not to kill yourself today so you'll live to see tomorrow.