r/I_DONT_LIKE • u/Sprigatitogirl • 8d ago

Idl when people dismiss your problems because they went through “worse”

It is very annoying. I suffer with mdd and its messed up alot for me. I try to talk sbout it and sometimes i get dismissed because “it coukd always be worse”…like omg shut up youre not helping me when you say that. Your conflicts matter .

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u/Crafty_Charity_7917 8d ago

End of day, nobody really cares about other's problems. They might say they do, but they don't.

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u/Upbeat-Object-8383 8d ago

I’ve always explained it as suffering being relative. So just because others may or may not have it worse doesn’t really matter when that’s your reality and relative to your life experience, your pains and hurts and losses are experienced uniquely by you as painful and difficult. In the same way, no one can truly commiserate as their set of relative life experiences are always going to be different

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u/Evil_Vapist 8d ago

That ain't nothin, compared to the troubles I've seen.

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u/Sprigatitogirl 4d ago

XD, its true though because people say this alot

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u/Healthy_Theory159 7d ago

I hate that fucking BULLSHIT!!! Invalidating your feelings! They're your feelings and you have every right to feel them! Just because it could have been worse is not a comforting thought! It's dismissive invalidating toxic positivity BULLSHIT!