However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.

Dorothy Rowe
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When we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred. In the moment when we are suicidal, we often think of other people who have been through it before and have been through worse things.

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