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30 Of The Darkest Realities People Often Choose To Live In Denial About, As Shared By Folks Online
It’s nice to put on rose-tinted glasses and create your own tiny happy bubble avoiding all the world’s problems. But pretending that they don’t exist won’t make them go away and being aware of them is important in trying to combat them.
However, people tend to do that as they refuse to deal with the negative emotions that sometimes can be crushing. Though not Reddit user Spartan1694, who wanted to hear only serious answers to the question “What are some of the most common dark realities people choose to live in denial about?”
More than 17k people joined the conversation and wanted to talk about the things that happen in real life but some choose to not acknowledge. Do you agree with them? Are there any more that you would like to add? Let us know in the comments!
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Mental health issues are not cute, funny or quirky. Being called a psycho is no compliment.
Depressions arent just a phase, schizophrenia is not just hearing weird noise sometimes, anxiety and panic attacks are not just 5 seconds of a flip out and everything is fine again.
Mental health issues are real and not to be taken lightly, it's not just a phase.
If you need help, please reach out to someone, talk to them. Let them help you. Theres not just that one way out. You can and will have good days again.
People don't take mental health seriously enough. Please get help if you need it, stay safe y'all, someone loves you!! If you don't feel like there's anyone you can talk to, I'm a friendly internet stranger who won't judge 💖
Toxic relatives... Just because they have your blood doesn't mean they are good for you or that you have to stay there.
it's okay to cut family members out of your life, you don't owe them anything. if your relationship with them is making your life worse in any way, bye bye! the fact that you're related to them means nothing if they're not a good person. don't be afraid 💖
That a majority of us are completely utterly ordinary people, and that’s okay.
Love is not enough. Loving someone enough will not ensure your relationship will be successful. Loving your child enough will not ensure they love you back or that they live a good life.
With love, you still need trust, communication, and respect (at least)
There isn't someone for everyone and some of us will pass away alone. Not everyone will reproduce and carry on their line.
Slavery still exists in many places of the world.
Why the Lego picture for this? Why not a child working in the diamond mines or numerous big corp sweatshops?
Maybe because the harsh truth is that some people treat others (e.g. slaves) like Lego. We don’t treat Lego humanely. We use it, play with it, and when we step on it we blame the Lego and swear at it.
Load More Replies...There are 43 million people living in slavery, right now. Today. Many of them children, with the vast majority of them playing a roll in producing the things that ALL OF US use everyday. Compare that to the 800K slaves the US transported from Africa over the course of hundreds of years, (total number of people enslaved was shy of 4.5 million) and yet everyone seems much more concerned with the impossible task of righting a wrong that already ended 160 years ago than putting an end to what continues to this day. Chocolate, coffee, cotton carpets, chestnuts, bananas, bricks, beef, christmas decorations, minerals for fertilizer, textiles, clothing, shoes, gold, diamonds, GRAVEL, oil, peanuts, potatoes , fish, silicon, iron, rice, poultry, rubber, salt, sugar, shrimp, sandstone, tea, timber, electronics, vanilla, tomatoes, tobacco and TOYS are some of the products that use either child labor, forced labor or both. Oh and of course pornography. Right now. Today.
Slavery is at its highest rate ever. It may have been made illegal but it never stopped it from happening
In India, for example, young women are sold into prostitution under the guise of a good job.
Slavery still exists every where. The employees are the slaves and the bosses are the slave drivers.
There are currently more people enslaved worldwide than there has ever been before in history.
There are about 40 000 000 slaves in the world today and the majority of them are living in Africa. We hear so much about the past and how we must atone for it, but what are people doing about today's problems? All those students pulling down statues, what are they doing about the now of slavery?
Would you mind sharing your sources, please? I'm very interested
Load More Replies...Slavery still exists in America. When almost half of the population will be in debt their entire lives and never know what financial security is, while the people that run all the companies have more money than they will ever possibly need. It's a form a financial slavery that is caused by capitalism and greed. Slavery never ended, it just changed forms. Go read about all the "freed slaves" that almost immediately got arrested and then leased out by the government as indentured servants. Go look at how Black, Chinese and Irish people were treated in the late 1800s. Look at how all minorities are still underpaid and treated as disposable by law enforcement. Slavery still very much exists in America.
It's more indentured servitude than slavery, which is nearly as bad but I don't want to minimize those who have suffered actual slavery, there's nuances that matter
Load More Replies...for example, Maurantania was the last country in the world to abolish slavery, in 1981, and it is rarely enforced, also the US emancipation proclamation, the one made by Lincoln, slavery is illegal UNLESS as a form of punishment, and now think about why there are so many black people in jail for petty crimes or no crime at all
There are slaves who get taken care of better than employees. Debt slavery matters too.
Low wages and limited choices in employment are certainly problematic. However, the term "slavery" applies more to those who are compelled to stay in their workplace and work for free. I've had shitty jobs and limited options, but I wouldn't compare underpaid work to being forced to work.
Load More Replies...That sometimes comeuppance is a myth and evil can triumph. That a huge factor in life is not hard work but luck.
I really hope Putin doesn’t ultimately triumph. Even reality must realise that’s just too much.
One Accident or tragedy can completely flip your life upside down.
Firsthand experience. My dad had an accident when I was 18 years old. Massive brain injury. He was bedridden, in diapers, with a feeding tube, at home in our front room for the next 21 years. He died a year ago and I can guarantee I have no idea where my life went in those 21 years. I still live at home. And I still miss my dad.
The memory of most people’s existence will be completely forgotten sooner than you think, even by their own families. I can’t even tell you the names of my great-great grandparents
I know some of mine only because of the genealogy search my folks did. But I had no clue my mom had cousins and aunts.
Just because something lasts a long time - like a marriage, or a job - doesn't mean it's any good at all. There are lots of reasons that things don't end, some are very bad.
That you can also alter your memories to believe your own lie if you think about it enough
You will lose everyone you've ever known and cared about - either to the end of the relationship, your passing, or theirs. We only borrow the people we love for a short time.
That's why I try to show as much love as possible to the people I care about. Nothing lasts forever except memories.
Elon Musk has the liquid assets to fund the UNs world hunger program.
He'd rather buy Twitter.
The problem is more complicated than simply providing food, entire economies and systems need to be put into place so that people and societies can support themselves moving forwards. Food aid is a short term solution to a long term problem, which doesn't mean it isn't necessary but it's not a long term solution.
Most new houses are overpriced trash.
I totally agree...A friend of mine once said »cars,houses and women...only with a past » I laughed at the time but have come to agree on houses...old houses have soul,charm and space....ok,I need a new roof but am willing to put up with the works..and price just for the pleasure of living in an oldie..
The number of innocent people in prison.
People say "Don't commit crimes and you'll not have problems with getting arrested." They have no idea how common mistaken identity, being at the right place at the wrong time, lazy jurors can ruin your life.
The clothes you wear and buy for $50 really cost close to $5 and are manufactured by slaves.
How livestock is treated
I think about this all too often. The animals are handled so roughly and farmers think they can't feel pain. My dad ( I don't really associate with him much) admitted to me he punched a pig in the head after the pig tried biting him or pushing him. Must've been a reason why the pig did that. My dad said "Pigs are tough. It didn't hurt him." How would he know? Just because an animal doesn't say "OW" and we can't see their tears that well, and they don't cry like we do (well, they do but people hear it as regular animal noises) doesn't mean they don't feel pain nor express pain. Plus, how baby animals are ripped apart from their parents to be slaughtered for tender young meat.
Your favored politician isn't your savior. Nor anyone else's.
I swear politicians are that kid that asked you for some Soda-Licious and pleaded with "I'll be you're friend" then says "Syke" when you give them some.
That being overweight is seriously detrimental to your health.
Yes, but being overly concerned about weight is seriously detrimental to people's mental health. Just try to keep yourself healthy and don't try to police the weight of others. edit: yall, I just replied to a lot of people in the comments, but I just wanted to say this: while this topic doesn't relate to me specifically, I've seen many people (especially women) endure a lot of hate about their bodies. if you're going to comment something about how you think everyone should look a certain way or be a certain weight, please just don't. society's beauty standards are ridiculous, and you're not responsible for the health of others unless you're a medical professional. please, please, treat people with kindness.
There is no such thing as unconditional love. There is always something you can do that will make someone, anyone, turn their back on you
Working yourself to death to the benefit of wealth hoarders is admirable and expected, and wanting to exist without struggle is lazy and shameful.
This is a tiny part of the reason I work in health and social care (UK). Of course someone, somewhere is profiting, but mostly I'm helping people in need and that's cool with me.
Gen X is in serious trouble when it comes to paying for retirement.
Things changed between my parents' generation and mine (GenX). No more company pensions, just Social Security and whatever we managed to save. My daughter (Millennial) has it even worse, which is why I'm paying off my house as fast as possible, so she'll have it mortgage-free, and why I have a huge life insurance policy to her benefit. Meanwhile, my parents left me with their debt.
Privacy basically doesn't exist anymore
No but I don't think we're really focused on as much as we think. Like when you're in a store, like Walmart. Ordinary shoppers can go in and if they're not doing anything suspicious likely they're merely glanced at for the most part, just like everyone else you pass by you're not intently focused on. There's just too many people in the world and neither of us are that special.
Under the right circumstances, anyone is capable of anything.
I don't believe this. People have been willing to die instead of doing something that is morally wrong. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of them.
That our memories are subjective, full of errors and patches in order to maintain a balance in our understanding of events. Some memories are even false and some memories are so different from other people present at the same events that actions, reactions and outcomes could be entirely opposite from each other. Humans assume that memories are correct all of the time, however they are prone to errors and even change over time.
I hate this. This is what gaslighting manipulators use on people. Under normal circumstances we're pretty good with our memories but we retain the information we deem relevant and most interesting. Traumatic, big events, or exciting times, anything that elicits a major reaction may get fuzzy or exaggerated in our minds. Of course an observer is going to have a different take on events than someone who was involved in the action. It doesn't mean one is wrong and the other is right. It just means 2 people have different perspectives.
Horrible things happen everyday, and the ones we hear about are largely a reflection of self-interest.
Well most media serve an agenda, and that is reflected in what they show. A few years ago in Australia there was a terrorist knife attack where one man died. During the constant coverage about it, i was watching the banner headlines running across the bottom of the screen reporting 70 people killed in terrorist attack in somalia, 20 in syria and so on. That's always been the case , one death is a tragedy, a thousand is a statistic...
Alcohol has me by the balls, makes my life worse, puts undue stress on my family, and will probably be the death of me. But in my mind, I find a way to justify it every day.
Alcohol is not the problem. It is a symptom of the problem, which lies within you. I speak from experience. Clean and sober 14 years. We can and do recover.
Hoarders usually just think they need everything or refuse to acknowledge the mountain of garbage is a problem. It’s really quite depressing to see family and friends who are in this situation.
Hoarding is a mental disorder and usually will be rooted in some sort of trauma in the past.It is not just collecting on steroids...As long as mental health is not a priority for government it will mostly go unnoticed and provide entertainment on tv programs such as Hoarders and the rest of us can sit back,pull our skirts away and feel good about our tidy homes.It is truly sad
The police in the US aren't there to protect people, just property. They have no obligation to protect you.
Please excuse me as I go look at cute hedgehog photos. This was sadder than I thought it would be.
"If you ignore them, they'll leave you alone." Told this while I was bullied in school. Once actually ignored it for three months. Big shock. They didn't leave me alone.
Well I certainly didn’t expect to feel like I got punched in the gut...
Loving someone doesn’t mean they love you back, it also doesn’t mean you have to be “in love” with them. Loving someone means so many things, I love my ex-partner still, but I don’t want to marry them. I just care about them so much and would be devastated if anything happen to them. I love my friends, but I don’t want to date them, I love them because they’re my friends and mean so much to me.
Please excuse me as I go look at cute hedgehog photos. This was sadder than I thought it would be.
"If you ignore them, they'll leave you alone." Told this while I was bullied in school. Once actually ignored it for three months. Big shock. They didn't leave me alone.
Well I certainly didn’t expect to feel like I got punched in the gut...
Loving someone doesn’t mean they love you back, it also doesn’t mean you have to be “in love” with them. Loving someone means so many things, I love my ex-partner still, but I don’t want to marry them. I just care about them so much and would be devastated if anything happen to them. I love my friends, but I don’t want to date them, I love them because they’re my friends and mean so much to me.