Bashing people trying to help is usually a reddit thing, but here we are.

This website is a text based medium. Literally the only thing that can conveyed here is information.

Books, as you are aware, can contain even more information and advice than this website.

If the person was looking for something other than information and advice, they would be looking elsewhere.

I have an intuition that there's a reasoning problem in this comment but I can't point out what exactly this time.

Verbal clues and facial expressions are also pieces of information, so the fact that HN is a text-based medium does not set it apart from other communication mediums only because it conveys information.

People going to HN to ask for help probably do this because they are familiar with this community, not necessarily because it is text-based and probably haven't rationalized this aspect that much.

Anyway, good luck to OP. I don't have any insight on this matter.

HN bashing can only go so far, every where people have the same prototypes of answers, HN, reddit, boards, public transportation :)

I didn't read it as bashing, but as a joke

Maybe I was lacking some humor that day

I admit it sounds crazy, but it works. I was extremely skeptical too.

It really doesn't work for everyone.

OP needs to see a doctor first instead of trying to use a placebo.

I'm incredibly confident that OP has already seen a doctor.

Well put. The sheer number of well-intentioned people who tell you the obvious thing to try out is annoying.