Good questions.

Generally, my mood is already ****. If anything, reading peoples threads gets me out of my own mind and places me in someone elses for a few sentences or paragraphs. It gives me insight into other people. There are forums I rarely visit (Survivors of Abuse, Adult Children of Alcoholics, PTSD) because I can become easily triggered by the forums alone, not even the threads, just bringing it up figuratively hits me in the kidney.

What I want from replies to my threads? Honesty and understanding (even if they only understand because of a friend or something). If someone's honest about how they feel, relate and/or believe would help me; it helps me and makes me feel as though I can be honest with myself. Someone who gets it, it makes the "I'm crazy and a freak" feeling less intense.

In the past when I've been open about my suicidality and been told "it's selfish"... it makes me feel 100x worse about myself than I already do. Like, don't they know that's already going through my head constantly?

I think a chees & whine thread would be good.