Yes, most of them think it's a meaningless phase, or possibly a cry for help.
Times, Sunday Times
Now there's a cry for help, for who needs reasons?
The Times Literary Supplement
Looking back now it was clearly a cry for help.
The Sun
Or politics or bankers or police, or revenge, or a cry for help.
Times, Sunday Times
A city judge condemned his actions, but said it may be 'a cry for help' and ordered treatment.
The Sun