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How do you stop comparing yourself to and envying others? I'm in university and watching all my friends amass research positions and excellent grades, while I had to withdraw from half my courses because my depression went to shit and I cycled through medications. Intellectually, I know that this isn't my fault and their success doesn't equate to my failure, but I hate having to feign enthusiasm. They deserve more than thinly-veiled jealousy for their accomplishments.

"Comparison is the thief of joy," as they say.

If you had broken your leg, you wouldn't compare yourself to a peer who had just made it onto the track team, would you? If your vision was severely impaired, you wouldn't compare yourself to a peer who had just gotten their pilot's license, would you? If you had cancer, you wouldn't compare yourself to a peer who was perfectly healthy and acing all their classes, would you?

Your depression is a medical condition. It requires a LOT of time, energy, and attention to manage. No wonder you're not thriving at school right now! So go easy on yourself while you're working out a depression management plan. It's not fair on yourself to be jealous of people who aren't going through a medical crisis right now.

Here's more of our advice:

Season 2, Episode 12: "I Work for Everything While My Peers Lead Carefree Lives. How Do I Control My Raging Resentment?" 

Our Master List of 100% Free Mental Health Self-Care Tactics 

How Mental Health Affects Your Finances 

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they were right btw. you have to dig yourself out of your grave over and over again

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periods are medieval honestly. like sorry I got suicidal last night turns out I had too much blood in me. yeah no some of it fell out and I'm fine now.

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ya gotta stop caring what people think and start being extremely weird. but never cruel. i think that might save you

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Berta Privée | No. 12

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there’s nothing more romantic than someone choosing to learn you. flipping the pages in your soul delicately and digesting your chapters with an open mind no matter how difficult or uncomfortable some of your moments read, treating each bookmark with no judgment, but pure love.

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you know how sometimes you go through the roughest moment in your whole entire life and then you look up and it's like. oh. the moon is still there

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mariwka

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@karinalbertovna

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