It’s real simple and people don’t like to hear this- but no problem will ever mean as much to you as your own problem, and no one can truly relate to a problem unless they’ve had it- and even then they can only relate from their perspective and experience. Imagine you are rich- wildly rich, and have everything you can imagine wanting right now. Imagine your life is one without fear or suffering and one day- you find out the perfect outfit you picked for the ball wont be ready on time. That is the worst pain you’ve ever known period. It may not be objectively as horrible as having a child die in your arms- but you’ve never felt that pain and the closest you can compare is not getting your outfit on time. And that is in many ways how developed countries seem to less developed ones. That is the poor to the rich and the healthy to the sick. You can’t know how even your headache compares to someone else’s and you may be able to tough it out but they might not have that strength.
@guest_ I agree with you. I came to realise that when I told an aunt about my depression(I‘m ok now). She said that I didn‘t have any right to be depressed because people were going through much more than I was, and then insisted that I “snap out of it.“ Another relative said I was over-reacting because depression “wasn‘t that big of a deal.“ It was diffucult trying to explain my feelings to them, so I just gave up trying
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