She isn't saying that people aren't great.

What she is saying is that she misses the people who used to be here, because she got to know them. She's saying that she misses optimism and positiveness - that isn't saying that other people are horrible. It's saying that the majority of the board is currently stuck in horrible depressions where they aren't able to see or focus on anything positive. And that it is currently pretty much all that is being seen here. And that's alright too.

It's alright for people to come here and need reassurance and empathy. But it's also alright here for people to want to come and find some hope.

I relate to Trippin on this - I don't really find too much hope here currently. There is probably a lot of hope (and I hope there is) for people who are needing/wanting reassurance and empathy.

As to myself? I just want to hope that things can be good and alright with us all. I want to be able to focus on good things and not be shot down for it - I haven't posted too much at all since that happened to me a few weeks ago.

To use myself as an example to illustrate what I think Trippin is getting at:

A while ago I started a thread asking people to list the things they LIKED about bipolar.

And do you know what happened? People came into the thread and yelled at me and said that I was insulting everyone who was depressed. Which I wasn't. I just wanted to focus on the good things, instead of focusing on the negative and frustrating things that we all get dumped with all the time anyway. Hell, I've been in a depression since July. I just wanted to do something to cheer myself up, and to hopefully maybe cheer up others too. And I basically got yelled at and insulted.