Guys please shut up about ethian. You are in no position to judge and speak so certainly about these things. There's many different possibilities, but you self-proclaimed psychologists just pick the worst.
You don't know ethian at all, or any situation, so please, shut up.
Will you tell us the same if we advise someone who complains about suffering from permanent headaches that they probably should see a doctor, too?
You are in no position to command members not to provide advice to others just because you don't share their point of view that there might be something the person in question should seek help about.
This may be the usually spam-filled half-serious Off Topic forum, but that doesn't mean that people who post here can't be legitimately concerned about the welfare of others, and they have
every right in the world to express this. Don't attempt to rob them of this right, or you risk becoming part of the problem without even realizing it.
Watching over members of this community, in many cases starting from the point they joined, does give us
some insight into what's going on in their life - at least based on the information they openly express - so I can't agree with your statement that we don't know the member in question "at all". We may very well know them
to a certain extent, up to a point that
at least allows us to be concerned about them and notice that something may be off. (Isn't that why we're a
community?)
This may not be
your way of dealing with such matters, but that does not give you the right to tell others what to do or not to do. It may seem easy to you to interpret If you stopped being
even more protective than we are and saw our posts (at least the constructive ones) as attempts to help, we'd all be on the same side and nobody would need pick fights with anyone. While the actions of everyone involved may be of a positive nature at the core, please take some time to think about whether some of them aren't a bit too extreme.
It's no secret that I'm a sarcasm-filled paintbrush in the vast majority of my posts by all means, but my previous post was 100% serious for once. As unintentionally comedic Nuts Goners were the first time they popped up around these quarters, and despite how hilarious I found the topic to be at the start, after all this time, it's starting to feel like there's more to it than just a shallow troll and I can't help but feel bad for having thought of matters the way I used to. After learning more and more, this has changed... however, this is the cut-off point where a random person on the internet is clearly not the best person to deal with the subject matter. This is why I mentioned that they should be talking to a therapist, not to us, as it is their job to get to know people more deeply and help them with their problems. Nobody is forcing anyone to follow that advice, of course.
Always keep in mind that people most likely won't be posting publicly about their issues if they're not having trouble resolving them on their own... and the rest is a simple case of empathy. That's even explained in the opening post of this topic.
As the guideline of this forum goes, it's nice to be nice to each other... just don't overdo it and end up turning hostile to others in the process just because they don't share your opinion - look out for each other instead.