I used to feel guilty about my hardships in life. I knew other people had been through worse things than me, so I didn't feel like I deserved to be upset about my situation. Eventually I realized this is toxic. Problems aren't a competition; my issues came inside the-
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we implicitly judge ourselves as being unworthy of the pain we feel as compared to those less fortunate than ourselves. We're engaging in a pain competition, where pain is distributed across a society as a limited resource instead of honored individually as a legit experience.
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