You don’t know how I am suffering..!!
When you are suffering with your mental health and
when you are with absolute low energy, it will be extremely unpleasant and
damaging to hear views like, ‘there are others who are in worse condition than
yours’, ‘You should be glad that you haven’t lost everything, at least you have
something to hold upon’, ‘It’s all understood but essentially you should, rise
above it all’.
There seems to be mistaken belief that just
because others have unpleasant experiences and sighting this should somehow
make you feel better. People don’t understand that just because terrible things
happen to other people it doesn’t lessen your pain.
Moreover, people need to reckon and acknowledge that you are not
‘them’, you don’t share their biology structure, experiences, situations and
background.
People need to accept that although they might be able to
respond to their thoughts and feelings in the way they wanted to, but not everyone
can. There are some of us who get hooked by our thoughts, we find it difficult
to distance ourselves from them and this in turn impacts on how we feel and
react.
Everyone struggles with something. We all are different, we all struggle sometimes, judging
and criticising someone when they approach us to inform that they are suffering
is insensitive and un-empathetic.
