 There's a very dangerous inclination in all humans to take comfort in the fact that other people have personal habits and engage in behaviors that are worse than our own. That's why the my life is miserable genre is pretty popular. People are looking for ways to rationalize their worst tendencies. They want to be able to point at somebody and say, man, I felt kind of bad about myself, but it turns out that this person behaves the same way and even worse, actually. So I guess I'm not so bad off.