Talking About Depressive Thoughts
Current mood:  miserable

Why do people invalidate others’ mental health and feelings?

I was in a depressive mood, and I posted a status about how I was feeling depressed because of family abuse and the teenagers that abused me walking home from work, and I felt that there was no point in living if things weren’t going to get better

I got a response from someone, word for word; “Oh come on, my life’s worse than yours and I don’t plan suicide.”

After they said that, I felt like that my problems meant nothing and it was something to shrug off, and I should just suck it up. What drives people to say these sort of invalidating or rude things to another person?