Don’t you just hate the phrase “ things will always get better “

[Metalhead]

Time after time this phrase is banded around, in my experience things tend not to get better. Yes there may be the odd day when I'm not as suicidal but that doesn't give me any hope. I always have experienced when things start going bad they always snowball & that slippery slope just gets steeper. How many others also feel this way & are there any other phrases that particularly irk you ?

 

[Worndown]

Nobody would complain if it was true.
Didn't work for the Titanic. No reason it should work for us.

 

[idontfeellikeimreal]

It feels like it gets better, but after a few weeks ur having ur suicidal thoughts back, and it feels like the days without those thoughts never ever existed

 

[Sethy]

Or "behind every cloud there is sun" Well perhaps in fairy tales tbh everytime i was thinking it will get worse it always did, it never got better and if if did, only for a reason to got worse even more. So no, life is not getting better, tomorrow will be worse then today. I like when people ask me how am i doing and i can say "worse than yesterday, better than tomorrow"

 

[divinemistress87]

Ive been hearing this for 7 years. No it fucking doesnt get better for some of us. Some people just learn to adapt I guess

 

[Daryl72]

Time after time this phrase is banded around, in my experience things tend not to get better. Yes there may be the odd day when I'm not as suicidal but that doesn't give me any hope. I always have experienced when things start going bad they always snowball & that slippery slope just gets steeper. How many others also feel this way & are there any other phrases that particularly irk you ?

Yes, I do indeed get tired of hearing that. I know people mean well, but they have NO idea how much we are suffering.

 

[shinigami_1992]

Ive been hearing this for 7 years. No it fucking doesnt get better for some of us. Some people just learn to adapt I guess

Yes, I do indeed get tired of hearing that. I know people mean well, but they have NO idea how much we are suffering.

I think its not just about suffering but about ppl who say that, tend to be people causing you harm, damages and financial losses. I am so sick of this phrase

 

[Metalhead]

It feels like it gets better, but after a few weeks ur having ur suicidal thoughts back, and it feels like the days without those thoughts never ever existed

Perfectly put.

Yes, I do indeed get tired of hearing that. I know people mean well, but they have NO idea how much we are suffering.

I find that saying " walk a mile in my shoes " tends to work

 

[abyss@fmPf1KVp6]

God yes, I hate that phrase especially when they try to frame it as "you don't really know if things can't change for the better" when I could say the same, they can't know if things can get better for me and in any case I don't care if they do

 

[Deleted member 94706]

if that phrase were actually true i wouldn't be depressed anymore

 

[LOVELYDARKDEEP]

Hope is, in essence, the denial of reality and the assumption that we, or somebody, can and will rearrange reality to a configuration that we find to be more appealing, in the near or distant future.

But I've always been a realist.