
Anyone and everyone can get hurt or abused and they are entitled to feeling hurt or abused. No matter what privileges they have or do not have, they are allowed to feel the full weight of their own pain and suffering without judgment. Sometimes physical pain is worse than emotional pain and sometimes, emotional pain far exceeds physical pain. But in both cases, pain is still painful. If it hurts, you’re allowed to say it hurts and if you want to cry, you’re allowed to cry. You shouldn’t put your pain and others pain on a hierarchy. My mother abused me my whole life. She has cancer now. She also has anxiety and depression, same as me. She has since apologised for mocking my anxiety and depression since to her, the mental health conditions are far far worse than her cancer. There’s a treatment for her cancer and there’s new technology and techniques to help her through it. There’s next to nothing new for anxiety and depression. She’s never once cried to me about her cancer. She always cries about how much anxiety and depression are ruining her life. That’s not to say mental health is worse than cancer! That’s to say that pain is universal and hurting someone who’s already in pain is something you’ll end up regretting. One day, you’ll feel the pain of the person you mocked and that will end up being the worst pain you feel because all the words you said about the other person will become the words you say to yourself to rub salt in the wounds. Please don’t end up like that. Respect peoples pain and your own. Pain doesn’t last forever but memories can. Don’t let their last memory of you be a horrible one if you can help it.