knowing other people are having a miserable run of things (or someone saying i don't have it that bad, at least i'm not ---) usually just makes things worse. if everyone's miserable, there's no light to look towards. and then i feel awful that i'm complaining so much over my insignificant little problems while there are people starving in africa. i get more depressed knowing my friends are all depressed and i'm in no shape to help them.