#Peer Support

Peer support is the ritual in which unqualified companions gather to pass around each other's problems as if sampling a fine wine. Neither official therapy nor casual advice, it serves as the community’s favorite buffer that sometimes leads participants deeper into confusion. It swaps empathy for pseudo-comfort, endlessly dancing the social waltz that diverts attention from the root of distress. Occasionally it works miracles with precise encouragement, and other times it traps everyone in an infinite loop of mutual consolation—a black hole of human relations.