Why Your Friends Have Stopped Caring About Your Problems

1) people care that you are well, they don't want you to die, and generally they want you to be happy

2) people have their own shit going on, which is just as critical, important, nuanced, and urgent as whatever is happening in your life

3) nobody cares about the details. they will humor you for awhile, but unless the details are gory or hilarious, render 99.9% of the population completely uninterested.

4) self-absorption is a character flaw, like talking over people in a group conversation. if you don't understand why, refer back to point #2.

5) at some point,even your most indulgent friends will grow tired of advising you of the same advice oover and over again. at some point, they will just write you off as "one of those people" who cannot help himself. ultimately everybody in the world ascribes to the theory that people make their own luck.

6) if you are healthy and live in a first world country, your problems are probably pretty trivial in the grand scheme of things

7) even if you do think that your problems are more interesting and more important, a well-socialized person has learned that if he/she wants a sounding board, he must at least reciprocate with the odd rhetorical question, i.e. "How are you?" or "How are things going in your life?"