The Pain Olympic -

There is no objective scale of suffering. A paper cut can be the worst pain in the world to a hemophiliac; a divorce can be less traumatic than chronic bullying. Pain is subjective. The only person who can measure your pain is you.

In the sprawling, often anonymous landscape of the internet, a dark and troubling phenomenon has taken root. It is not an official sporting event, nor a clinical diagnosis, but a behavioral pattern that has been given a chillingly apt name: The Pain Olympics . the pain olympic

Instead of comparing your pain to others (horizontal), compare your present self to your past self (vertical). Are you coping better than last month? Are your symptoms less frequent? That is the only competition that matters. There is no objective scale of suffering