>>77094946I don't think it's rape more than the innate need to want to feel needed and to help, someone who is sad most people empathize with and assume they need comfort and they can be the ones to provide it.
With something like depression it really isn't in the cards, every day can be a battle and the energy they spend trying to help could feel like it's being dragged through a black hole, it's stretched and deformed and then just gone, lost in the gravity of the illness.