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Oh, I suppose it's possible that I'm just not in a good mood. Always worth considering.

I mean, I do also find pharmacokinetics a bit complicated TBH

I've got loads of sympathy and empathy and time for other people. Honest.

I'm a bit worried that I've been too vague and some people will read this as "stop telling me your problems", but it's just that thing where it makes people feel better that alludes me.

Solutions is one thing. I am all in favour of solutions. But I think a lot of people just feel better knowing there are others experiencing the same, without getting any solutions. That's the bit I don't get, personally. I know it works for others. That's what I'm wondering about, really.

Maybe I just never get the whole "no-one understands what this is like" thing. I think anyone in my situation would feel the same... or completely different... but neither makes any difference to how I'm feeling.

Also, this doesn't mean I don't want to hear about other people's problems, comparable or not, it's specifically the "makes me feel better" bit that people talk about which I don't get.

Exactly. Also, people could be not even having anything like as hard a time as me or someone else and still find things impossible. That's valid too. It's not about who is worse off, it's about how it hits each of us individually.

Ha, I suppose I am basically asking for people to do the thing I'm complaining about. It is genuinely good to know in this instance, though.

I feel like this might be one of those "what happens in your head when I say picture an apple?" things, where we're not aware of how differently other people's brains work. So I just thought I'd check.

I'm always thinking it could be worse, but that never cheers me up much tbh

I know it is really helpful to many, many people. And it's one of the things people lurch towards as a go-to bit of advice. Having a hard time? Talk to someone who is having a comparable hard time! But, like I said, for me, that really doesn't make sense. Got a problem? Listen to someone else's!

Often it feels a bit like I've taken a car to the garage cause it doesn't work and the mechanic is just standing there with their own broken car saying "yeah, mine doesn't work either, mate". Does that make sense?

"I'm glad it's not just me", or "at least I'm not alone in feeling this way", don't really work for me. I don't take any comfort in that, but I know and understand that many people do. Just wanted to check if I'm really the odd one out here.

For me, personally, it doesn't. I don't feel any better about the hard time I'm having, even if someone in an identical situation to mine is having exactly as hard a time as me. I sympathise with that person, but it doesn't help me or make me feel in any way better.

A couple of things before I post this 1) sorry if it's kind of depressing, 2) I hope it doesn't expose me as a psychopath or similar.
If you're having a hard time with something, does it make you feel better to learn that other people are also having a hard time with the same or similar things?

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