“You don’t have to be grateful that it isn’t worse. Read that. Read that again, again, again. Somebody, somewhere, always has it worse than you. There is one person on this planet that has it the worst of all, and that person is NOT the only person allowed to be unhappy with their lot. If things are bad for you, they are bad for you. Period. This goes for trauma as well. A lot of times survivors get trapped in a cycle of minimizing and diminishing their trauma because ‘other people have it worse’ - bust there is no hierarchy of trauma. There is no raking system for which traumas are “better” or “worse”. Just trauma is valid. Period.