Probably, but I think it's important to take responsibility for yourself too. And I think the only reason it would have been effective is because getting real support would have been such a novelty I'd have been shocked and excited by it.
I think when I was most pathetic, I drank lots of times thinking "if someone just reaches out to me I won't have anything tonight."
Sometimes you see someone who has such incredible support from their friends and family that they're just from a completely different world. But those people still have problems, and that support only goes so far. Most of what you do is just you, no one to thank or blame. But say thanks anyway because it's polite haha.