I am really really angry to read this thread.
how the hell will anyone feel, myself included, who is going through a particularly shitty time at the moment?
I'm guessing this was the kind of response you were looking for, and are now sitting back, rubbing your hands with glee.
You horrible coldhearted selfish person, and you claim that it is other posters that attempt to turn the thread around to themselves?
Life is not always happy, and great for everyone, all the time. Some people go through really rough times, and often for prolonged amounts of time. Life just isn't that simple to sort out always.
How lucky you must be, to not need to ask for help, or advise when the chips are down. How lucky you are to be so secure, so safe, so comfortable, so happy, so wealthy in every sense, that you have no need to talk of the road you are traveling being a bit bumpy.
All you have now done, by starting this thread, is make ANYONE who has asked for help, or is grieving, or perhaps vented a bit, or discussed a problem, or requested any kind of advise, to feel totally paranoid, upset, and embarrassed that they have ever done any of the above.
You either have no need for any of the above because your life is perfect, or you don't need to ask for any of the above, because you are so stable, sorted, or have so much support around you that you need not ask for help from a fairly anonymous group of people on the other end of a computer.
Either way, whichever is the truth, not every one is as fortunate as you.
I would rather be supportive, kind and care about someone, anyone, having a bad time, at any time of the day or night, a million times over, than be smug, coldhearted and self centered in the unpleasant way you have portrayed yourself.