So my (24F) friend Jaiden (24F) has come from, according to her, an abusive family in Asia. We are online friends but don’t know each other in real life. She wants to be the greatest person alive and constantly talks about how she wants to be this very great, multitalented person who’s an actress, model, fantastic artist, etc. and how she wants to be famous but then talks about how she’s horrible and will never be this all the time and IDK how to help anymore. I listen but she always asks me if I think she can be this person.
Sometimes people just want to hear their feelings validated and reflected back. You could try “that sounds hard, how do you feel about it?” But only if you have the energy for it and you want to!