Comment on Is there a name for downplaying your suffering because other people have bigger problems?

killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• schmorpel@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  That would be the exact opposite from what OP describes, where a person goes “Oh woe me, all the weight of the world is on my shoulders and I get zero acknowledgment!”

  I guess somewhere between the extremes is a healthy range of “My life sucks, and so does everybody else’s.”

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  • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    You’re tacitly incorrect. A martyr complex doesn’t require that the sufferer bemoans others for a lack of acknowledgement, or that they think their problems are worse in comparison; just that they feel that they are constantly suffering for some cause that they may or may not justify.

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