Narcissism Glossary
Pain treated as a competition (suffering olympics)
🥇 The stance of racing pain against pain — "I have it worse" — steering every conversation and monopolizing the victim's chair instead of empathizing.
Your pain gets buried under their story, and genuine comfort never reaches you.
Your pain gets buried under their story, and genuine comfort never reaches you.
Often seen in situations like these
🗣️ "Work was rough today" gets answered with "That's nothing. I have it a hundred times worse."
🗣️ Your pain gets a hearing measured in seconds; their misfortunes, in hours.
🗣️ Your pain gets a hearing measured in seconds; their misfortunes, in hours.
When this happens, try this
💡 Pain is not a race with rankings. If yours keeps getting trivialized, quietly withholding your deeper heart and easing out of those conversations is how you protect it.