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I just feel like such a hypocrite. I will post about how hopeless I am feeling, then turn around and try to support someone else with some words of hope. Is it the thought of feeling like you are somewhat uniquely hopeless, everyone else can be helped, but you are the one hopeless case? I don't know how to feel about this.

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I don't think you are alone in feeling this way. However, I don't believe it is hypocritical. Difficult for someone who has not experienced it to understand, maybe, but since I have been in the same boat so to speak, I will try to help you row.

It is just plain easier to try to objectively help others with their needs. I doubt I'm alone in feeling as though I'm beyond, unworthy, or otherwise unsuitable for the kind of help I can offer to others here, at least at some time or other. That's our own defeatism talking to us, I think. It doesn't make you a hypocrite; it just places you in the same boat as a lot of us who have a difficult time believing (at least sometimes) that we are going to feel any better any time soon.

The best I can suggest is that you try to remind yourself these nuggets of wisdom can apply to you too. It's not easy to convince youself of that, but it helps to try, I think.

Besides, sometimes, you just need to hear some encouragement from someone else, and there's nothing wrong with that. So post away, don't sweat it.