Venting Always taken aback by how indifferent people are to others' suffering.

[SilentSadness]

Whenever I visit a 'normie' place, for example Reddit or Twitter, I go in with the expectation that people will be unnecessarily cruel. Even so, when I see people post about their bad experiences, I am always so taken aback by how cruel and callous the responses are. Someone can post about being abused, having no money, having trauma, wanting to die, and the responses will mostly be things like 'you're overreacting', 'it's not hard to resolve your situation', 'just talk to a friend', 'other people have it worse than you', etc. Some people even reply with a joke or pun to someone expressing their experience with abuse or hardship. Strangely, I always notice the people making the posts always seem to react positively to these kinds of awful, toxic responses. It's as if people mostly go on the internet for sadistic or masochistic reasons rather than to socialise. I know that if I were to post in most places, I would be attacked and belittled by everyone, just like I have been so many times.

 

[Bananaman]

I don't know about Twitter but Reddit people are usually sensitive to such indifference unless it's like r/mentalhealth or r/suicidewatch where it's genuinely just stupid heads repeating the same old rhetorics to suffering people. Thinking about it though, I guess you can't blame someone who hasn't suffered much to know what it's like - they just don't understand one bit and can't relate so they resort to the default responses.

Anyways, according to my observations that's in only such general mental health subreddits, in specialised ones on the other hand such as r/cptsd, r/bpd, r/trollcoping etc. people actually get it