• "What's your problem - stop moaning"
• "I'm fed up of you constantly whining"
• "What gave you the idea that I actually care?"
• "You're so selfish - you only ever talk about yourself"
• "Shut up"
• "There are people worse off than you"
• "You need a hobby"
• "You need to get out of the house"
• "Get a grip of yourself!"
• "Why can't you just be normal like everyone else?"
• "I thought you were stronger than you really are"
• "If you stop wallowing in self pity you will feel a lot better"
• "Grow up"

• "I'm so sick of you talking about this - what about me?"

• "Stop feeling sorry for yourself all the time"

• "Thanks a *lot*.  Now you've made *me* depressed too!!!"
• "You're always worried about your own problems - what about *mine*"
• "There's always someone with worse problems than you"
• "Things aren't *that* bad"
• "You're just upset.  You'll be over it soon"
• "You're just having a bad day - you'll be O.K tomorrow"
• "Attention-seeker!"
• "It's your own fault you are feeling like this"
• "If you don't think about it, it will go away"
• "Go away" or "Piss off"
• "Try not to be so depressed about it"
• "If you try and help other people you'll have less time to think about yourself"
• "I don't know what you are going through, but I do understand how you are feeling"
• "How bad is it?  Do you need to go to hospital?" (what about how I'm feeling?)
• "You did *what*!!!"
• "You know you can kill yourself doing that"
• "That's *horrible*!!"
• "How can you even *think* about doing that to yourself?"
• "Can I see the scars?"
• "That's sick!!"
• "Weirdo"
• "Freak"
• "Why don't you just stop doing it?"
• "I don't think I can be friends with you any more now"

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