Downplay

 Why do people always try to one-up each other's suffering?

Just to show one extreme example to get the point across:

Person 1: I left work because I was feeling sick today.

Person 2: Oh really? I'm shitting my pants on my death bed as we speak. 

That's just an extreme, but you get what I mean. Trying to talk about our feelings can be harder than it needs to be because other people don't listen. They "relate." Stop "relating." It's not helpful. Just listen. It's actually much easier to listen than it is to "relate."

Stop downplaying the feelings of others. It's a jerk move.

Be cooler.

-Emma Lancaster