Greetings @snowpea. This made for an interesting read.
I am glad to hear that you are stronger today than you were a couple of years ago.
In truth it is all too easy to look upon others judgmentally when they face problems that one has not. All the more so when one has not experienced them.
Incidentally I'd also treated this topic a few weeks ago, occasionally revisiting certain tags as I do believe that it needs to be delivered to those in the greater need of it.
You're right about how people judge what they haven't experienced...one tends to imagine the "right" way to deal with a problem and they compare their hypothetical self to the real problem in someone else's life.
Your article was very thorough and well thought out...it must've taken you days!!! I hope it reaches the people who would be helped by it. :)