I wrote this in another thread but I'm posting it here too since it seems relevant:
"On one hand, there are plenty of people you hear about who have gone through incredible hardships and are still strong. I know someone like this and often when I hear of other people like him I wonder why I'm also not coping and thriving when my situation is not as bad as others.
On the other hand, I simply can't bear the thought of going on like this for the rest of my life. We all have different capacities for our emotional/mental anguish and some people seem to be able to flourish regardless of their situation, whereas others (such as myself) struggle."
In my experience/opinion, people who tell you "X has it worse, at least you're not in this situation" have very little regard for others or their feelings, and lack the ability to empathise, and they're certainly not the type of people you want to surround yourself with or go to for support.
I used to see this argument (if you can call it that) thrown around everywhere a few years ago. Recently, just before I joined SS to be precise, I found an article about 'ways to kill yourself' which was essentially just an insensitive pro-life article that ended by showing you pictures of a little girl in a 3rd world country and a quadruple amputee, both who were still smiling despite their hardships. Then the author pointed that out and asked the reader why they weren't.
All in all it's an incredibly illogic platitude (again, if you can call it that), and while I understand the intention of "hey, at least it's not that bad, be happy for that", I feel that anyone with a shred of empathy should realise that telling someone who's depressed or suicidal to be happy it's not that bad is just going to make them feel invalidated and guilty.