My experience is that the opposite is often true: quite a number of those who overcame <x> tend to have the least sympathy for people struggling with <x>.
I've met ex-poor people who attribute their success to simple 'trying harder' than other poor people. I've met socially successful people who attribute it to learning 'a few simple tricks' and 'getting out of the comfort zone'. I've met ex-depressed people proclaim that if only others would meditate and/or believe in themselves it would solve all their negative feelings. I've met gays who argued that if only these sexually-confused individuals would let themselves be themselves, and move somewhere more free if need be, their struggle would be over. I've met Christians who attribute their new-found wholesomeness to simple being more repentant than everyone else in church.
In each of these cases, the conclusion was that 'these people', whether poor, socially anxious, depressed, gay or in existential crises, are just not trying hard enough (lazy).
In fact, I'd go as far as claiming that, considering myself someone who has had a decent breadth and depth of experience with these groups, easily more than 50% of the ex-somethings I've met are more on the side of judging their ex-peers instead of supporting them.
I'm sure there's fascinating research in this area. I catch myself doing similar things and while I have some theories I can't fully explain why I do it. Protecting/polishing my ego? Keeping some clean narrative and sense of progression in my head?
One of the great things about natural language, is that we can create new words, in order to arrive at more fine grained meaning. I personally can appreciate a difference between a compiler that takes source code in one language and generates source code in another high level language, and a compiler that takes a source file outputs a binary.
Granted, there are a lot of situations where there is no need to make a distinction, but that's not always the case.
An analogy might be the use of the words car and taxi. Cars and Taxis are both vehicles. In fact, a taxi is often a car.
In some situations, I might say "I went there by car" - and that would be sufficient. But if the situation demanded I express the fact that the car that I traveled in was a taxi, I would say "I went there by taxi" (Not "I went there by a car that is owned by a freelance driver who charges by the kilometer")
