At least try to

Angst is pain. Selfish, self-centered, small-time hurt, self-inflicted or otherwise, is still pain. Anybody who says otherwise has ideas roughly equivalent to "getting stabbed by a sword is painful, but having a hundred needles run through your gut isn't."

Angst is pain. Only in tinier, more drawn out quantities.

To throw a teenage cliché at all of you out there,

You don't understand.