Best of luck. It might just be my attitude (Probably is, so take this with a few grains of salt) but a lot of the time when I'm talking to my counselor, we come to the point that I just care too much about stuff that is important/tragic, but has no direct effect on my life. Example And a lot of his advice for dealing with these things amounts to 'Just don't think about it.' Which I hear and interpret as 'Go numb. Don't allow such painful stimuli to trigger a response. Don't care about things other than the NFL and how much less nice your car is than your friends.' We're pretty good at dealing with people who have inferiority complexes, because that's a 'normal' dysfunction to have. To always be after more stuff, to always want more stuff, hell that's how the economy manages to scrape by, most people just want more stuff. (Apologies for rambling, I'll come back and clean this up later)