IMO it sometimes helps to hear similar bad experiences and especially the ways that the other person coped with them. Just sharing the bad experiences might help you to diffuse your bottled up emotions and I assume that's good for your mental health? Hearing that someone also have similar shitty experiences might show you that you're not the only one affected with such tribulations . Also I like to learn about the coping mechanism that people developed to face/forget/forgo bad experiences ...