Just caught up to the end of the stream after I paused it when I went to start my own.
I don't want to talk too much about my own experiences, but I will say that I have been in very low points in my life when it looked like things were never going to get better when I had my own contemplations, so I don't understand the "I was thinking of killing myself when I hit a certain level of success" mindset here unless it is a level of impostor syndrome that I will never comprehend.
Of course IANA psychoanalyst but I see it as a very good thing that she said what she did. The truly hopeless rarely talk about what they intend to do with anybody else. They just do it. Her sharing her feelings with fifteen hundred people was a literal cry for help, and now there is a chance for the right people to answer that cry if she will let them.
I understand being distrustful of shrinks, because I've had my share of bad experiences. So many of these people are dealing with upper-middle-class women who are "depressed" because someone else at work got a promotion that they think they deserved or whatever that when someone truly messed up comes into their office, they don't know what to do but to retreat behind textbook diagnoses and throwing pills at the problem. So I don't think saying things like "she needs to get to a shrink now" is very helpful. She can try that approach again if she decides it's time, but trying to force her into it is only going to harden her resolve to avoid it. But the shrinks are not the only way out of this. For me, it was work. Once my career started turning around and I was back to doing work in my field and even sometimes felt overwhelmed by the amount of it, things got a little bit better, and I felt like my existence had a little bit more purpose. Maybe work will not be the answer for her, but actually part of the problem. Maybe instead she needs to touch grass, to get out and see the real world and real friends a bit more. But maybe she disagrees about that too, and if that's the case, tweeting at her telling her to touch grass is just going to harden that resolve not to do so just like trying to push her towards shrinks.
I guess what I'm getting at is, let's tweet her our support, but no suggestions. Let her find her path out of this on her own. They are all open to her at this point. And may we all live to shitpost another day.
You are not a fraud, rabbit!