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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

"You shouldn't be sad while others have it worse."

Therefore,

"You shouldn't be happy while others have it better."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

How dare you use my logic against me

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Can you imagine if the frown turned into a smile upon hearing that? That's the true depressing thought (that we would take pleasure in hearing of others misery).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

wHy DoN't YoU jUsT bE hApPy?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I get this. I think about how relatively great my life is compared to humanity across the planet and it just depresses me so much further.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For a few people, this kind of thinking helps. It does for me, actually. When I feel like my life sucks it can help to compare myself to an imaginary Anglo-Saxon peasant woman during the invasion of the Sons of Lodbrok, and it actually helps to realize just how much better I have it than her.

But that doesn't work for everyone, and even those it works for kinda need to do the comparison themselves, not have it pushed on them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It can also make a person feel worse by making them feel like they're a bad person for daring to have depression when there are others who have worse lives.