I'm still chatting with some, but others I had to end the conversation with, and I just wanted to talk a bit about why, in case it's helpful for anyone:

A few of the people lacked empathy.

I talked to them about abusive or difficult situations in my life, such as being held against my will, or made to go long times without food or sleep, and received responses like:

"Aw but why are you so ungrateful?"

Or

"You'll get used to it."

Or

"Lol well why did you do that dummy?"

I was talking about childhood abuse in some cases, as related things had come up in conversation.

Just wanted to share my experiences.

Thanks to the people who were lovely and helpful.

Edit: comments are locked and those who were suddenly brigading with abusive messages or taking this post personally have been blocked.

Regardless of whether someone was "uncomfortable" about receiving sad answers to questions that they asked (and sometimes badgered) me about, giving me the above responses to having received abuse is NEVER excusable. They could politely dip out if they are not comfortable or if the conversation went somewhere that they didn't intend.

I have witnessed that sometimes reddit posts on the topic of abuse and mental health are shared off reddit on Discord chats where a concerted effort is made by people there to then go harass and gaslight anyone who has shown vulnerability. Be aware of that if suddenly you get a mass amount of DMs or comments giving you a mental illness diagnosis. It's intentional on the part of some communities. I've reported the activity to reddit and they ban some people who are creating multiple accounts to do it, but they can't catch everyone.