For a year or so, following my last suicide attempt, I took Cymbalta. I was on the maximum recommended dosage & it was actually the best antidepressant I ever took. (I'm no longer on anything.) But one of the things it did, which was not so welcome, was that it made it possible for me to talk about things I would never have breathed a word about had I not been medicated. Did it do any good? No. As you said... no help or even words of comfort. In my case, mostly just changes of subject. I wish I'd kept my damn mouth shut too.