Deep Shit
When all your mum can say is, “Oh. You’re in deep shit,” (or at least the Mandarin equivalent of such a phrase) when you tell her your problem – you know you’re in really deep shit. Especially when she doesn’t have any advice to give and says that you have to sort it out yourself.
The downside of confiding in people with this problem is that there is no solution or advice that can be given, so the look of pity and doom on their faces just makes you feel worse because you realize that you’re actually much deeper in the aforementioned shit than you thought you really were.