ASCIIng for sympathy

Is there anyone else here who has no problem talking through a convoluted problem with someone to arrive at some sort of approach, but yet has the biggest difficulty with something as easy as wishing someone a happy birthday, or giving condolescences to someone who gives a brief statement stating he/she is having a rough time?

I mean, I feel happy or sad, respectively, whenever I see the message on my screen, but converting such a simple line to text seems unreasonably difficult for me. But propose a convoluted problem meant for a professional psychiatrist, and I'll have no problem shooting my mouth off trying to help as much as I can, seeming like I know what I'm talking about.