I suspect alkjash’s description is the same phenomenon, just somewhat less visible to your social group (because your group rewards/tolerates misery and sympathy demands, but rejects overt anger). There’re a lot of variants of “uncontroll[ed|able] bad feelings”; Anger and sadness are fairly common to find together in the pathologies you’re talking about.
It’s not obvious to me that this topic is much different than any other human suffering—the vast majority of cases are emotionally distant enough that I’m not able/willing to make the sacrifices that would significantly help. I haven’t found many charities that seem likely to be effective for this kind of suffering, but I’m open to suggestions.
Being gripped by destructive rage when your friends succeed sounds like not a central case of the thing I was trying to describe.
I suspect alkjash’s description is the same phenomenon, just somewhat less visible to your social group (because your group rewards/tolerates misery and sympathy demands, but rejects overt anger). There’re a lot of variants of “uncontroll[ed|able] bad feelings”; Anger and sadness are fairly common to find together in the pathologies you’re talking about.
It’s not obvious to me that this topic is much different than any other human suffering—the vast majority of cases are emotionally distant enough that I’m not able/willing to make the sacrifices that would significantly help. I haven’t found many charities that seem likely to be effective for this kind of suffering, but I’m open to suggestions.