True or false: the best person you could talk to about your problems is a stranger?

I feel like over time, my friends, family and peers are programmed to respond to us in a particular way that may not (or may) get me the inspiration, insight, answer or response that we were looking for. Maybe it’s their own personal biases, or, maybe their consideration of us causes them to urge us to do what they want us to do, not necessarily what’s best for me. Most people are familiar with this line “I care about you so I’m not telling you what you want to hear, I’m telling you what you need to hear.”. I’m here to posing the question, “Need to hear – according to what or who?”. I’m beginning to feel like sometimes, the best person to go to about my problems is my own self. Or, is it?

There have been times when I’ve confided in strangers – or have been in the reverse situation that the result was like a type of revelation or epiphany. It’s like the times you spend hours, days, weeks stressed out over something and then suddenly you reach a point where you think to yourself “Wow, how could I have been so silly?”.

Does anyone else feel this way? Like sometimes, the best advice is received from complete random, total strangers as opposed from where you’d expect it?