Offering Advice

don't really need advice, have a question though
almost everyone i talk to (at least between ages 20-30) says "i hate people", while i don't ever hate people (i can't hate people i have no respect for and i lose all respect for people who treat me very badly).
what's your point of view and did it change over the years?

Hmmmm.
I'm old, let me tell you a story.
My dad told me this.
The overwhelming majority of people are good people. Decent people. When the chips are down, they are there helping, comforting, etc.
But 99% of everybody isn't thinking. This isn't bad - when you are used to walking, you don't think about it. When you get used to driving you don't think about it. So we all drift around doing things we are used to and not really thinking. Fine.
Remember 'when the chips are down' above? Yeah - when things snap people out of it and people HAVE TO think most of them are awesome.
Some freee.
And a few are *really pissed off* that they have been forced to think.
So remember that most people (including you!) are on autopilot, that most people are good, but you have no idea who the bad ones are until things go sideways.
So I like people, but I really *trust* just my family about about 6 others because I know what happens with them in a pinch.
Make sense?

[man, my typing sucks. Sleepy after lunch]

I'm 18, I've had my first girlfriend and we've been together for 6 months. Everything is going mostly smoothly, but she is a very anxious person, to say the least. Very small things and often irrational fears can make her go from extreme joy to extreme sadness.

I always try to cheer her up when I can, but it can become quite stressful when she has a "down" and she cries every day of the week.

I suggested that she should consult a psychiatrist, but she did have a bad experience with a previois psychiatrist, and so she doesn't want to consult another one.

I don't want to push her too much, but I'm afraid I'm going to "break" eventually. What do?

(Ps: It's not social anxiety, she's just afraid that she'll receive bad grades, or that she might give a bad first impression, but at extreme levels...)

That isn't a healthy level of anxiety. Could be depression. Encourage her to discuss it with her medical doctor, first
Most people cry for a few minutes for anything less than death, so....
she needs to speak with someone

off to a meeting;
thanks, all