It's not uncommon for me to come across people that give tough love to those they are trying to help.

I just want to know the communities thoughts on tough love. First of all, I wonder if such an approach is actually allowed here, since my intuition is that it's probably not considered supportive on here. More importantly though, does it work? Im sure there are many that think it has worked for them, many believe the opposite as well. What im curious about is, whether it might just work and actually be the best approach for different personalities, circumstances and such, or if the people that were recipients of this type of help just found value in it, but would have fared better with a different and objectively superior approach.

I wonder if there's been any studies on this.

Also, feel free to share your personal experience with this.

Lastly, this is not ment to be a personal attack on those who use this type of approach. As it is usually seems to be done with good intent. Im merely questioning the efficacy of the method itself.