Very true!!! The grass is not always as green as it appears on the other side of the fence!

I think people often equate $$$ with happiness or not having it 'so bad'. Money does not equal happiness just like owning something doesn't equate happiness like a collectible figurine on a shelf that you have to dust every week.

In my opinion life is about relationships and all people are effected by them regardless of what 'looks picture perfect'. Relationships can be hurtful and healing and anyone can experience this.

There is always someone who has it 'worse than us'. I learned of many stories of fellow outpatients. Some of them lived through horrific things in their childhood while others had a 'normal childhood'. Normal by societies standards in the sense that they weren't physically abused and had financially successful parents however they may not have had much of a relationship with their parents (parents were emotionally distant or narcissistic and not 'connected').

Everyone's story is different and just because someone doesn't have a single trauma event that doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't be allowed to say we have emotional pain.

For example: A homeless person may feel sad about something but then say I should feel lucky because I don't live in a third world country and have access to a soup kitchen and a homeless shelter. A homeless person could say to them self: I have no reason to complain because I'm not spending my nights on a patch of dirt without any food or shelter.

Likewise a financially well off person could say I have no reason to be upset for losing my life savings in the stock market because I have my own home that's payed for and I am not like the homeless person who has to go to the soup kitchen or sleep in a shelter.

There is always someone 'worse off'. I think we need to be more compassionate and less judgmental of ourselves. Honor and acknowledge feelings, work through it and have a plan for moving forward.

:Hugs: