What is the worst thing about being alive?

[motel rooms]

If you're not very dumb, almost everything in life becomes very predictable & tedious very soon

 

[deepinlimbo]

Wanting to live but living with things you can't fix so you just have continual and daily extensional crisis.

 

[shortieee]

when you have to kill yourself just to please everyone and then fake a smile to show you are the happiest person...

 

[Pookie]

Suffering and being forced to suffer because "life is so precious" and "you have to fight harder" bullshit.

 

[Fragile]

Getting to a point so low that the only thing that's you can do is wait to die.

 

[Scribble Fan]

Being eaten alive by my mental illnesses.

 

[Weary Soul]

Knowing that I do not really belong in this world.

Seems to me that people (in general) have evolved, like the vast majority of animals have, to survival of the fittest on an individual level and evolution has stopped there.

IMO, it is well past time that evolution gets a kick in the butt and steps up (or we as a society do), to ensure surivial of all, and importantly, this would include acceptance of every single person's right to autonomy as a priority rather than being forced into a belief system that does not fit everyone.

See! I don't really fit into this world : )

 

[ithappens]

Just existing and experiencing what life has to offer is bad enough.
Throw on top of that a traumatic childhood, mental illness, and a general lack of motivation to exist the way current society wants me to exist and ... I'd have to say the worst part about life is having been born to experience it at all.

 

[Largeletters]

Being born into a world that you end up hating, a life you want to end, and going through terrible things that are not your fault. I did not sign up for this, and I'm angry I was brought into this world.

 

[yive]

life itself! suffering, needs, evolution, competition, cruelty, survival, pointlessness, selfishness/every man for himself, imposition, nihilism, god/religion, fake positive lies everywhere, stupid consumption/reproduction program, parents, pro-lifers, work, forcing, no right to die...

that's enough to want to ctb asap!

 

[lobster salad]

For me i think the worst thing about life is being forced to do things you do not want to do. Be it parents or others forcing us to do things we hate, or life itself. the duties in which just living alone creates for us, like chores, work, waking up, eating. We can't do "nothing" at any point in life, we are forced to be doing something whether subconscious or in a state of full awareness. And as a chronic lazy arse I think that's the worst part. I hate this godawful 'work - rest - sleep - eat' cycle. It's inescapable as long as we're alive, i tried explaining this to my sister and (just like everyone) she obviously doesn't understand me because she told me to break the cycle without realising that would require me to take my own life.

 

[saltshaker]

The realizaton that I'll never know the truth.

The truth about what?

 

[Makko]

The truth about what?

The nature of reality.

 

[goat]

I like life itself, I like nature, I like observing, I like eating and I like walking.
The world is interesting, amazing and beautiful. I'd be lying if I say I hate it all.
I love it.

Im physically disabled and was victim of abandon, neglect, abuse and various cruelties from a young age, together with extreme poverty this affected my means to fit in society and left me vulnerable to fall into a rabbit hole of more abuse.
Not a case of "everyone is bad and im a Saint", it's just how nature works, hurt, bleeding preys attract predators.
I do believe there are good people on this earth, but I'm way too damaged to get to them. I'm completely lost in the world and society.
I ended up with a terrible scarring past, physically scarred too, no place to live (I don't have a country I can stay anymore - long story- and soon no roof over my head), no family, friends or significant others.
All I have is my mental illnesses.
The world is pretty and I'm glad I've got to see it, the sky, the woods, the sea.
But I also came to gather enough self love towards myself to put an end in my suffering, like I'd do for an animal with wounds way beyond help that's struggling and suffering and just waiting for the relief of death. I'm in peace with it.

 

[avoid_slow_death]

Living

 

[alienatedmom9999]

In your opinion, what is the worst thing about inhabiting this world in life?

I think for me, it's probably the mental and physical anguish that I suffer from as well as my embarrassing lack of motivation that makes me come off as lazy to other people... So I'm just lazy to others... And they voice it, too.

For me, it's knowing there are three humans on this planet (my children) for whom I sacrificed almost everything (including many aspects of my physical functioning) who want nothing to do with me, and who idolize their father, who, because of his manipulation, destroyed the best parts of me. I have no doubt that they will wake up and realize what they have lost the moment I'm gone. It's just that, at that point, it will be too late for all of us.

 

[Largeletters]

For me, it's knowing there are three humans on this planet (my children) for whom I sacrificed almost everything (including many aspects of my physical functioning) who want nothing to do with me, and who idolize their father, who, because of his manipulation, destroyed the best parts of me. I have no doubt that they will wake up and realize what they have lost the moment I'm gone. It's just that, at that point, it will be too late for all of us.

I'm so sorry for what you have to go through

 

[innocent21]

Before being detained in a mental hospital, mild depression (or dysthymia) and having an existential crisis and loneliness.
After being detained in a mental hospital and being forced to take antipsychotic medication, side effects that left me unable to work, being sedated, over-sleeping and anhedonia. And I still have all the old issues I previously had like existential crisis and loneliness, just that their drugs made me feel even worse than I did before.

 

[hʚll]

lack of freedom

 

[Lady black]

Knowing that everything only will get worse every day, never will get better

 

[VicMackey]

In your opinion, what is the worst thing about inhabiting this world in life?

I think for me, it's probably the mental and physical anguish that I suffer from as well as my embarrassing lack of motivation that makes me come off as lazy to other people... So I'm just lazy to others... And they voice it, too.

Hello
Kinda new here.
The worst thing about being alive.......having the career / profession you love so much, enjoying it and being good at it, not even feeling like work, then having it taken away from me by an evil person doing so much damage to my reputation i can never have it again.
Getting older and being less needed and wanted.
Loosing the most loving wife i could ever have.
Not being able to function or imagine going on through live without all that has been taken from me.
Maybe its worse to have a great life and have it taken away from you than to have never had it at all.
Regret it horrible.

 

[Canon1]

The pain and agony we have to undergo daily. It seems there is no solution.

 

[CrappyMJ]

Being the most fucking socially awkward person on the planet. I've never had a meaningful two way conversation in my life. Ever. I tried everything from reading books and trying different methods but I just SUCK. Now I'm just lonely and I have no one in my life. Life is such a torture every day when you can't even make the simplest connection with someone. I can't even go out and buy a rope ffs...

 

[Bedrock48]

I'd say the mental health system, completely broken and letting down people again and again. Every time a person is failed the system says they'll learn from it but nothing changes. If the system was vastly improved with more funding and wider availability I'd reckon a good 75% of us wouldn't have ever needed SS.

You do everything your told to do during a crisis and yet receive nothing in return. Told to ring the emergency services if you're a threat to yourself or others. However if you ring before you've done anything you wait hours for someone to tell you "well its kinda late now, why don't you just go to sleep" (happened to me the other day) or something equally unhelpful.

I know this isn't a universal experience, some people are genuinely helped by the system, their lives turned around and they go on to lead good lives. Nevertheless the percentage of people failed is still atrocious.

 

[AsToldByNish]

In your opinion, what is the worst thing about inhabiting this world in life?

I think for me, it's probably the mental and physical anguish that I suffer from as well as my embarrassing lack of motivation that makes me come off as lazy to other people... So I'm just lazy to others... And they voice it, too.

Loving people who don't love me back or would miss me if I disappeared or died today

 

[meetapple]

That I depend too much on other people.

 

[newave3]

What is the worst thing about being alive?​

Being around other people.

 

[Squiddy]

Having to live with my short term memory issues, mental illnesses (Schizoaffective bipolar type, BPD, PTSD, ADD, dissociation issues and anxiety), physical health issues (being obese, not much stamina, feeling like I'm going to faint when I stand for long periods of time), feeling unmotivated and unable to actually get things done, not being understood by parents and problems minimized by friends and parents (ex: you'll be fine, things will get better, others have it worse etc.)

I'm just so done and tired. The only reason I haven't ctb is because my siblings would be upset and I'm afraid of a potential afterlife and being punished plus my SI being high. I hope I can get past this stuff and finally be at peace :(

 

[GnarlyWalnut32]

Lack of affection and intimacy, psychological trauma there's just too much

 

[LeGuitarist]

The fact that I'm incapable of ctb'ing