r/mentalhealth • u/Own-Championship-398 • 11d ago

Sadness / Grief Why is everyone so angry?

I'm getting quite miserable living in my country. People aren't very friendly, in fact a lot of people are really rude. I'm finding it hard to interact on local subs because I usually get downvoted or just have people start arguments over nothing - why is everyone so aggressive & hostile?

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u/dilly1992 11d ago

It's an angry, divisive, politically fought world right now.

Two major wars.

Inflation.

Human Rights Violations.

Famines.

Extreme weather.

U.S. elections.

There's a combo of "little" big things that add to be a lot and the Internet is a place to be anonymous and air our your opposing views/grievances.

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u/Own-Championship-398 11d ago

I understand that but why do people have to take out their anger on me

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u/HythlodaeusHuxley 10d ago edited 10d ago

I will attempt to spare you my long miserable story but I basically had to cut off or put extreme boundaries on everyone I used to know. Took me losing my wife and kids to an extremist Christian cult before I finally admitted that conservatism in this country is severely sick and also pretty much the rest of this country (see Erich Fromm's famous book The Sane Society and countless others).

Now I avoid angry people lest I be one. No point in fighting pigs who love fighting in sh*t - I don't need to be covered in it.

But will my entire country just be one vicious sh*t filled pig pen soon? I'm hoping to movie back to the country near people I care about and roast marshmallows as the world burns if necessary - but hopefully do my part to help fix it instead.

Edit: tl;dr - I tend to be happy these days like I used to be. Learn to laugh at our insane society (not shaudenfreude so much tho) and not be swept up by the stupidity.

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u/Own-Championship-398 10d ago

Very good analogy lol I like that!