Do you suffer from comparisonitis?

telegraph.co.uk:

books had never been featured on national radio, and my sales hadn’t set the world on fire. Over the following week, as Angela’s novel hit the top 10 bestseller list and sold thousands of copies, my sense of envy deepened, along with a kind of fear.

She was doing so much better than me. Was there something wrong with my writing? And why couldn’t I be happy for my friend – was I a bad person?

I tried to say the right things, and be supportive, but inside I just felt worse and worse. Angela and I became friends about nine years ago, while taking a writing class in the same adult-education college.

Although we have lots in common, our lives are also different in many ways. She lives outside London in a pretty suburban town, and has been with.