Let the people who care about you know when you need company more than perspective.

People who love you usually want to help, and help most often arrives as analysis: what you could try, how to see it differently, what it might mean. That is genuinely offered and sometimes wrong for the moment, because there are hours when nothing needs solving and someone simply needs not to be alone.

Say which one you want, at the start, before the advice begins. Something as plain as asking someone to sit with you rather than fix it will do. It feels strangely direct the first time and it spares you both the wrong conversation. And when someone tells you the same, believe them and stay quiet.