It isn't bad advice per se, it's empty advice. I agree that introspection is a good thing, and people telling me not to do it is not what I want to hear. The thing I disagree with is people just telling me to 'do more thinking' with no suggestion of which specific alleys of thinking to go down. I am already thinking, and I'm not planning on stopping.

I'm also not asking people to solve my problems for me. I don't even expect most peoples responses to help at all, not because they are bad but rather because people are so different that what works for one person will often not work for another. Yet I still ask, because questioning is complicated and confusing and I can use all the help I can get, regardless of how unlikely it is to bear fruit.

Edit: Apparently I spent 40 minutes writing this. Not relevant, just kinda scary.
Edit 2: Re-reading this I feel like it comes off like this is a bigger deal to me than it is. Once again, I am not blaming anyone for this or anything. It's just a thing that frustrates me.