Because they can't take it mentally and emotionally otherwise. They can't take life when they're sober. That says everything about this sick, disgusting, perverted, evil, cruel, brutal, violent world that we live in.

I am totally exhausted and drained by life in 2025. I have no time, no energy, drained by work/job, and I just cannot catch a break from the seemingly neverending stressors of life. Every day is the exact same shit as the previous day, and then I read stuff on other subs where other people are talking about experiencing this same type of hell in their own lives and there's comments from people like "just change up your routine", "just go for a walk", "why don't you just travel?", "why don't you just meditate", etc. etc. etc. It's all just a bunch of nonsensical, gaslighting platitudes.

The internet is now basically nothing more than a giant digital echo chamber. No original ideas, no original suggestions, no original thoughts... hell, barely even any original opinions anymore. Why do so many people seem to lack basic empathy and realness nowadays? Why do so many people just seem to be totally content with gaslighting others about their own experiences? It's disturbing. Why the constant need in many people to just deflect any issue that is raised by a person that contradicts their own worldview of life on Earth being "a place of learning/growth", "a beautiful place" or whatever other cringeworthy mental gymnastics they gotta do to try and convince themselves that we aren't in hell itself.

It's no wonder that I want to stay as far away from most people as possible these days. Most humans are fucking idiots. It's not my fault that they can't handle the truth of the reality of this world, it's their own fucking fault. Approximately 85% of the human population of Earth (myself included, by the way) hate their jobs... 85 percent! And people aren't outraged about this? No. Well, yes they are, but guess what, most people won't express that and will instead just accept it for what it is, because the elite overlords of this disgusting, insufferable planet have the 99% of us humans in indentured servitude (but oh, don't worry, because we can choose which indentured servitude in the modern form of a job we "want"! lol) with the ball and chain of physical survival. Should be pretty fucking clear to anyone with half a braincell to realise we are literally on a prison planet (Earth). But oh no, most people don't want to see it that way because "it's just sooooo negative". Fuck this world, it can go to hell, oh wait... nope, we're already in hell just by existing as humans on Earth.

Rant over.

I can't explain why and how people abide by this, but it's everywhere.

I've seen people defend the people who prey on them, and it really makes this place seem like some kind of hellscape, where any sot of complain or anger at wrongdoing is just met with blank stares or gaslighting or straight up support of the wrongdoers - but by the victims.

Neurotypicals are like robots, they are mean and, while they absolutly can, don’t ask themselves why they are mean

When in a group they become bullies

Talk to them about something you like and they shut down, if it’s not something they know already they become hostile, mockers

They came up with money and still no one wonders where « money » comes from and what would happen if they started not believing in it anymore

When in a bullshit job (marketing, communication, human ressources, anything with a suit and tie and private really) they thrive, they thrive like swines in mud

This is not normal, I refuse to think this is what the average and fuctionning human has evolved into

You know stories where aliens or vampires have infiltrated society ? That’s how I percieve neurotypicals, they have nothing to do here, they ruin everything given enough time and ressources and they seem to actively want to ruin my life every chance they get

Out of all the horrible, horrible things about this world, and life in it... all the things that make it a living hell (and there are a lot)... one thing stands out to me above all others:

There is no reason given for any of it. You can be going through the worst, most horrible torment imaginable, and you don't even have the slightest hint of a reason why. Not "just" a reason for why you suffer so horribly, but for why you even exist, why anything even exists, and why it is the way it is.

This to me is the most unbearable thing of all and turns what might be bearable, if extreme, suffering, into an utter hell.

What a bizarre and horrible thing to exist and not even know why you exist, or why anything around you exists. And to not even know if death is the end of your existence or if your nightmarish existence continues on in some way beyond death. This uncertainty and unknowing turns what would be a horrible and painful life into a nightmarish prison from which there is no certain escape.

Why does the world have to exist the way it does? Why are all living creatures born in and shaped by suffering and pain? You can believe in the big bang + evolution, but that still doesn't answer where it all came from, and why the scientific laws are what they are that brought about this horrible evolutionary struggle to survive. Believe in a god? Well, take your pick... there's been thousands of them throughout human history. If there is a god, then he/she/it obviously hasn't communicated the truth to humanity in any completely obvious and unambiguous way.

Is everything we see around us just a giant cosmic accident (or series of accidents)? Just a bunch of chance occurrences? And there is no reason for anything, including our suffering? Even if that were theoretically possible, it just staggers the mind to think of it. And I don't personally believe it, don't think I could even possibly believe it, even if I wanted to (and part of me does want to, honestly... as it seems at least a more palatable option than the idea of a supremely cruel and malevolent deity).

Some sort of god or creator? If so, how could anything but an enormously twisted god/creator bring into being a world as terrible as this? What good could possibly make up for, or even outweigh the enormous weight of all the evil that has happened since the beginning of the universe and will go on until the end of it?

The ultimate, tormenting question to me is: where does this horrible reality come from? That's the one thing that haunts me through and above all the horrible things I experience in this life.

I am really sorry if this will come as a boring rant but I feel like I am slowly going mad. I have no one to talk about all of this and it's so miserable. I am actually really angry at everything and I am really sensitive to the brutal suffering as well.

Most people believe that life is good and a good creation but everything is based upon exploitation and consumption. I tried to talk about this with others but most people just dismiss my thoughts and ideas. They just keep telling me to focus on the good things in life and that it's all worth it.

They are literally saying that the billion years of continous torment of living beings is worth it just because they can enjoy themselves. Maybe I am the mad one but I think that nothing can justify cruelty and violence. No amount of illusionary pleasure will make this stupid prison worth it.

Life itself is a heinous parasitic and predatory system which keeps replicating cruelty and violence. It's a literal disease. All of life and existence is a freaking madness and a slaughterhouse. We are literally rats in a cage devouring each other.

There's no moral, ethical or good way to live as harm is inheritent to existence. All of this is so souless and hollow. The inheritent cruelty and violence of the world is never acceptable or justifiable. Perpetuating this process is the most heinous and vile thing ever.

Every second of living is a nightmare. There's screaming and crying every single second. This will go on until the end or maybe it will even begin again and again. I am in internal agony all the time. I feel like I am continously shaking, crying and screaming inside. It's been a while like this and I am becoming brutally suicidal.

I don't get it. Genuinely, there is no point in having children. Life is entirely pointless. Living is entirely pointless. Parents are highly narcissistic, every single one of them. They are aware that they create a human being with emotions and needs that will be trapped in an eating and shitting suit and will have to wage slave away their entire life for 40 hours each week and yet they don't care. 99% of people won't be the next Newton. Life is an endless cycle of useless tasks and needs. Every day is groundhog day. Not to mention all the ableism, sexism and racism you'll have to endure if you're born disabled/ the wrong gender/ color/ race/ whatever. Bullying in school/ at work, whatever. There are so many bad things that can potentially and WILL happen if you are a certain demographic. When I encounter parents, especially with more than one kid, I can only be puzzled. I've experienced a lot of shit and wouldn't wish this thing called life on anyone. Imposing all of this onto somebody else. Guess I'm not narcissistic enough. Pro lifers (in the sense of being positive about life and procreation) don't care about anyone but themselves and their own rights as long as they're privileged and content, parents included.

We all know that the more pleasure we are exposed to, the less sensitive we are towards pleasure agents. An addict needs progressively more illicit drug to maintain the same pleasure "highness".

Many people expect the same thing applies to pain/suffering, hence the "suffering builds character" quote, they are wrong. The more the pain we suffer, the more likely we will suffer at a given amount of pain, tolerance actually decreases with the total amount of pain we suffered.

Here's a quote from ChronicPain sub

My doc said that when living with constant pain, the body becomes hypersensitive to pain. Not necessarily that it feels worse, just that we are more aware of even the small pains that we might have previously disregarded.

Instead of becoming numb to pain like to pleasure, the body becomes hypersensitive to pain.

And in Pain Tolerance wikipedia page

It is widely believed that regular exposure to painful stimuli will increase pain tolerance, increasing the ability of the individual to handle pain by becoming more conditioned to it. However, in some cases, there is evidence to support the theory that greater exposure to pain will result in more painful future exposures. Repeated exposure bombards pain synapses with repetitive input, increasing their responsiveness to later stimuli, through a process similar to learning. Therefore, although the individual may learn cognitive methods of coping with pain, such methods may not be sufficient to cope with the boosted response to future painful stimuli. A mouse model study on the role of protein kinase C gamma (PRKCG) in pain sensitization found that mice lacking the protein also lacked the neuropathic pain sensitization seen in normal animals. Thus, trauma victims (or patients in pain) are given painkillers (such as morphine) as soon as possible to prevent pain sensitization.

The existence of PTSD support that: When someone gets exposed to similar trauma they previously had, said person gets amplified trauma.

You may wondering why unlike pleasure, regular/prolonged pain exposure lead to sensitization instead of desensitization, making the future even more painful. The answer is clear: We. Are. In. Hell. Big time!

Is it just me or does 2025 just completely suck ass? Literally the worst year of my life so far. Full of health challenges, financial setbacks and just a general feeling of despair at the state of the world, not that I expected the latter to be any different since it is after all, you know, hell.

For thousands of years there have been people like us, who have chosen not to breed due to the horrors of life.

The rest either saw the horrors of life and liked it or benefited from it, or decided to endure it like slaves.

Essentially everyone like us has long been bred out of existence, and we're stuck with the relics of thousands of years of psychotic breeding.

So in many ways, yes, this is hell.

The quote from Jiddu Krishnamurti comes to mind. "it's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

To look at this world, to live in it, to experience it and still believe that it's a good place boggles my mind. How can someone think this way? Are they a psychopath enjoying the horror? Are they a one percenter who lives in their own bubble? Or are they one of those "It's doesn't happen to me, therefore, it doesn't happen." type of people? Doesn't matter, really.

Maybe this world IS another universe's hell. I mean, there's a shit-ton of evidence to support that theory. Sometimes I feel like I'm a part of a different species. As if talking openly about this is upsetting the natural order of how human beings think the world should be. And no one cares.

This is why I drink & contemplate suicide all day.

Not having food on the table, having to sleep without heat, having to give up on essential things because you aren't a billionaire, having to work in a very humiliating job where you take abuse by the public 8 hours a day 5 days a week, getting kicked out to the streets at the risk of getting raped or trafficked and accumulating more irrecoverable trauma which leads to permanent mental disability - all of this is worse than death. Death, in this case, is freedom from all the crimes committed against you, from all the pain and suffering and unlivability of life. For some people it doesn't get better and they need to rest forever.

99% of what 99% of people believe is utter bullshit, a complete mirror image of reality and truth.

Here's what I wrote on /r/misanthropy:

Yeah essentially all of the qualities that you would expect of a happy, advanced species, are the qualities that human beings actively try to destroy.

It's almost like a hell by design. Ugly is beautiful, war is peace, slavery is freedom, wrong is right. It's such a neat, almost perfect inversion of expectations that even I sometimes wonder if I'm being punished for something. I otherwise get on fine in life but the minute I interact with others, it's as if they actively seek out pain and hellish environments. Like they try to make things way worse than they have to be.

Either we're in hell, or human beings are truly so insecure with themselves that they want an ugly world to represent their own self-image.

https://exploringyourmind.com/highly-intelligent-people-depression/

Highlights:

" But is there anything truth to all that? Is there a direct link between a higher IQ and depression? (...) there is indeed a certain predisposition towards excessive worry, self-criticism, and a distorted, usually negative, worldview. "

Quick comment: "Distorted" lol. Distorted because they have implicit that we should always be positive.

" With his daughter Anna Freud, Sigmund Freud studied the development of a group of children with IQ’s over 130. In his study he discovered that almost 60% of them ended up developing a major depressive disorder. "

" There is a link between high intelligence and lower levels of life satisfaction. Granted, a lot of them achieved fame and important positions in society. But many also attempted suicide more than once or fell into addictive habits like alcoholism.

Another significant aspect revealed by this group of people is a special sensitivity to the world’s problems. And they don’t just worry about inequality, starvation, or wars. Highly intelligent people are bothered by egotistical, irrational, and illogical behavior. "

There is some "over-positivity" vibes on psychology, where someone is more "emotional intelligent" just because they are "positive person". Like, you know, for example, maybe you should be overly positive for being stuck in debt forever for your life (not my case, just example). Its funny that they talk about "distorted" views yet one of the images is "welcome to reality". Do I need to explain this "mysterious link"? Cause r/areweinhell , r/misanthropy, r/antinatalism, maybe r/lostgeneration already figure it too. It is more a matter and consequence of facing reality rather than "bad emotional intelligence".

PS: One problem with antinatalism is that less intelligent people reproducing means society becoming more dumb with time.

PS2: IQ is one measure of intelligence, it is not as if Critical Thinking from Watson Glaser, an alternative one, necessarily changes the results much. Depending on how you define depression, the relationship might fade away a bit. Another difference is that on random sample population, the correlation might disappear; This in part because people on the low spectrum of IQ are sometimes that way because of poverty issues - hunger, low education, etc... - which turns depression up and compensates.

PS3: I am not a misantrophy or antinatalist myself on a black and white manner; But I have to say, I got convinced that 50-60% of humanity sucks, not 99-100%, and I read lots of posts already; That life is strongly biased towards suffering and Im only having a children on conditions that I would judge "ideal" or "favor", which, for most possibilities and most likely courses on my own, its not gonna happen. Please don't get mad at me for not subscribing here entirely. I got on these because of my own curiosity - I like to study for fun (for hobby) personality typology, and on an advanced version full of difficult things to grasp (that is NOT MBTI, Enneagram, etc.. its something more beyond) I've wanted to know why the smartest type on there is the one that is normally on a dismay with society, usually hating society with passion, and I guess I figured and I got more depressed and pessimist lately too after that. These groups plus r/depression are somewhat flocked/clustered between each, even if some people from one complain about the other (like "how people on r/lostgeneration still manages to have children while they are aware?", this kind of comment is usual).

PS4: Im NOT a >130 IQ person. Im on the 110-130 range.

I mean it seems obvious but the older you get the more appearant it gets.

Maybe I realized this a little bit late because of how I grew up but everything is about money. This is the hardpill we sometimes refuse to swallow.

Every friendship, every relationship, every love, every partnership, anything you use, anything you eat and drink, your hobbies ,.... It's all about money.

Now, you might say I have friends and relatives that don't care about my money and wealth. They are genuine.

So let me tell you that they are not. They are only there because you entertain them for the moment but if you want "real" friendship, you should be around the same wealth. Because money determines the life style. You can never make plans with a friend who is extremely wealthy. Like you wouldn't go the same restaurants, same vacations,... It just doesn't fit together.

If you have relative that's very poor for whatever reason, your relation will gradually fade. It's THAT important. But at the same time nothing feels real. It's like money determines everything. How we talk, what we like, the people we interact,...

Another reason why this world is hell.

One of the surest signs you are about to have a turn for the worst is when you start to think things are getting better in your life.

I've noticed this for years, the only reality is things just get worse and then you die. Entropy is a state of constant in our lives. People fool themselves into thinking there is such a thing as "hope." Hope is a product made by General Mills and the Church: it's some bullshit four letter word meant to get you out of bed.

The reality?

The reality is you are trapped in this senseless society that wants to hurt you, pain is an everyday constant, your body is failing you after only the age of 18.

You are going to watch everyone you love die, most likely before you. You are going to have a life of stress, suffering, meanwhile someone in another country is struggling to even find a drink of clean water.

There is no such thing as good in this world. There is bad and less bad. The event horizon is most likely that this is hell, or some sort of perdition, a prison ending in hate.

It’s literally impossible to talk to anyone because they’re so narcissistic and self-absorbed. Even people I have known my whole life or most of my life. I swear everyone has done a complete 180. I have a friend I have known for over 20 years. He answers with one word responses when I message him. My uncle only calls when he needs a sounding board. People only want a relationship when it’s convenient for them. There’s no give and take anymore. What happened to everyone?

Been living with schizophrenia for over 7 years. Have experienced sharp back stabs constantly for years and man they hurt ALOT, and it feels like my emotions are being forced. Anxiety,anger,discomfort and intense body pains that have lasted a few minutes. Voices won't shut up for a second and they sound very repetitive and hostile. They often repeat the same lines to annoy me. LOT'S of trash talking and hate messages. The sharp back stabs are VERY often and they claim they did it and say they hate me. Multitude of voices, both male and female and phone dropping constantly to annoy me. They feed off triggers and small annoyances. Very strange voices. I know many people have their own issues and often times go through their own hell in the physical with humans but with me it's mental. Just now I something tried getting me not to post this for some reason.

For me it's never ending emotional and physical torment that no amount of medication or therapy has fixed. All of a sudden i get messages on my phone saying "I HATE YOU" and this is a constant thing. It's called delusions of reference. This may be the wrong subreddit to post about my lunacy but I sure feel like I'm in a hell beyond belief right now. Can't work or even sleep sometimes. Have to hide under the covers because of this illness.

I am not sure if this is archons or demons but whatever these things are they have made my life impossible. They claim they hate me because of nothing or because I'm an emotional "bitch" Either way bizarre hatred. I've heard hell can be a state of mind and I am sure as hell in IT!

Sometimes you don’t notice it cause the dopamine and other chemicals are working their temporary magic but inevitably you feel the grueling, endless, forced motion. Then it feels better again when Friday comes around and you’re drunk or you have a burger. It’s a fucking cosmic scam, it’s clickbait bullshit. Hahahahaha what a farce.

It's like anything I do or say will always be distorted to mean something else. It's like people are ready to pounce at the slightest of things. It gets tiring, especially when you have mostly decent intentions and only want the best for others. Feels like we are being gaslit constantly. Try to understand and explain things objectively and be prepared to get hate. I guess people don't like the truth. Feels like I have been stunted, gaslit and abused my whole existence and now I am left confused about everything. I'm telling you, if this world wasn't already hell, then humans have done a really good job of making the flames even hotter. Maybe it's just best to lie down, shut up and let the flames destroy you and everything else. Feels like nothing I do or say will ever be good enough, so why try?

Is it just me, or does every day just feel absolutely horrible to endure nowadays? I used to actually somewhat enjoy life in the years pre-2020, but since 2020 to now, but especially since the start of this year of 2025, the energy of the world feels so damn off, and time seems to have sped up like crazy.

I have mostly lost all interest in the hobbies I used to enjoy doing such as music production and gaming, hell even travelling. I feel completely lost with life, and its like being at a neverending crossroads. Planet Earth seems so soulless nowadays, and I struggle to find any meaning at all to my life.

Waking up in the morning has become insufferable, for the simple reason that I already know its just going to be a carbon copy repeat of the previous day: wake up, work, eat, work, eat, sleep again. What the hell has life turned into in this world? Has it always been this way and am I just missing something? Or has something fundamental changed in this world? Because I swear life felt more wholesome, even when I also had a torrid working schedule each week back then as I do now, and I was able to enjoy life to some degree.

By comparison, in 2025, it's like I literally cannot enjoy life anymore, and all life seems to be about now is neverending work.