It is neither and it seems appropriate to stick up for the comment you are replying to. It's about as simple of an expression of empathy as can be expressed, to treat it as otherwise reinforces the point.

Take care.

This is the stigma. No matter what I say about how I feel it will always come back to my mental illness.

I can literally tell people how something made me felt and they gaslight me and diagnose me!

I am having a hard time with the article, that is all.