I've just read the thread myself to get some context, I was away from the site when it was posted. Deep sigh. I was speaking to somebody only this morning about the concept of toxic positivity; in-essence, the idea that everything can be fixed by adopting the right frame of mind. Whilst I would defend the innocence of the poster's intentions, to me, their thread was a shining example of the aforementioned quixoticity.
I know all too well how gut-wrenching it can be, particularly when you're feeling vulnerable at the fledgeling stages of recovery, to read something that appears to confirm everything you loathe and despise about yourself as if to say "yes, you can recover, you're just not trying hard enough". Again, I wouldn't like to argue that's what they meant, but in generalising their post and framing it as advice as opposed to just telling their personal story, that's sadly how I interpreted it.
I don't know if you're going to come back @NeverGoodEnuff, either way, I truly hope that you weren't driven to doing something impulsive, to feel compelled to such an act of despair as a result of what you'd read, that to me would be a terrible tragedy. Sometimes it's good to have a break away from this place, I've taken one or two myself over the months and returned with my energy renewed.
If you do return, I hope you'll find the same sense of renewal, and since this is in recovery, may I be so bold as to say, hope - because damn, a life without hope is no life.
