There are many things that are obviously true, but people still refuse to see them. We can take some simple examples - let’s say, you can know that somebody is being a terrible friend or partner to you. They are literally a walking red flag, but it is what it is because you love them, you have fun together and you just choose to look away.
Well, there are things with similar principles that everybody knows but just chooses to look away - such as that alcohol is no good for us or our phones are just robbing us of our time and attention. So, one Reddit user recently posed a question online asking folks to share things that are blatantly true, but that people still choose to ignore. Scroll through and share your opinion!
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Mental illness is an *illness*
Yes. Period. Yet people say "it's something fancy", "it's imaginary", etc. When will people learn?
One of my favourite quotes about mental illness is along the lines of "The next time someone tells me I need to be stronger and just get over my illness I'm going to ask them to come over and whack then in the knees with a baseball bat, then tell them to walk it off."
I broke my back in 3 locations while in jail. They made me walk to a sheriff's car to take me to the hospital. That was easier than dealing with my social anxiety disorder some days.
Such an array of severity and symptoms to mental health. I have Multiple Sclerosis, which is caused by nerve damage in your brain . I am unable to work mostly because of the inability to retain information for a period of time and extreme fatigue and weakness. I own a gun and should be able to use it to save my life if it comes to that. People who look vulnerable are more likely to be a victim of crime and need protection. I had to list my mental illness to get the permit
Not at all decreasing the seriousness of MS, but it's not classified as a mental illness. It's an autoimmune disorder.
Ignorance doesn't help, people don't understand mental illness, if they can't see it, it doesn't exist. People need to be educated properly. Just because you're smiling or laughing, doesn't mean you don't have mental health issues. RIP Robin Williams....
And many people with mental illness should not own or have access to weapons.
There's a lot of chronic illness that doesn't just pass. Diabetes, for example. But also, mental illness can compromise a person's ability to work on it. "Mental illness" is an extremely broad term, including things like PTSD (which I'd understand calling a "mental injury"), anxiety disorders, personality disorders, schizophrenia, depression, and, I'm not going to attempt a comprehensive list here, those are just examples. But with certain mental illnesses, I think it's quite obvious that the illness itself can stop a person from getting help. Schizophrenia, for example. There are people with schizophrenia who do get treatment, but there are others who have delusions of doctors conspiring against them. They can't help that their brain does that. Unfortunately, when it comes to very severe mental illness, it can take away a person's basic ability to function.
Load More Replies...BP and diabetes, but I'd rather get rid of the bipolar if I had the chance to get rid of one.
Sorry for the inconvenience. Didn't realize our crippling mental struggles were such a nuisance.
No one said that but the rest of us have to protect ourselves also. Their are unfortunately plenty of people who don't want to do the work but want everyone else to bend over backwards for them and that's not right either. I know this from personal experience. It's really more like putting the oxygen mask on in a plane. You got to take care of yourself first before you can help others. And when the others are fighting you you've got to protect yourself
Y’all call people with physical illnesses a nuisance too, so that we’re clear.
I've lost a friend of 25 years yesterday to depression, I've suffered with depression myself since I was 10 years old! DON'T TELL ME TO COMPARE MY BROKEN ANKLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS!!! Until you've had a look into that deep dark hole STFU!
Say you don't understand illness without saying you don't understand.
People act out their mental state. If that acting out can harm others or themselves, it can't be excused. It needs to be dealt with, unfortunately for those harming others that means incarceration. No apologies required for protecting the public from harm wherever that harm comes from.
I'm curious to know how you expect everyone with a mental illness to take responsibility for it. Mental illness is not a choice and people who have it are no more responsible for it than someone with any other disease. And the idea that everyone who's mentally ill can "make an effort" to get better is plain ignorant. Clearly you don't know anyone with major depression. It can be so debilitating that you literally can't get out of bed. And it's not as easy as just asking for help. There's a ridiculous expectation that if people who are mentally ill try hard enough they can get better. It doesn't work that way. Try to imagine someone getting hit in the knees with a baseball bat and being told to walk it off. That's what you're suggesting. This kind of thinking is why there's still such a stigma attached to mental disorders.
Thank you for proving just how self-centred many people are about mental illness.
We just need to "become healthy" by "working harder on our brain chemistry" in the shadows, so we don't bother anyone.
There is no super secret cabal of shadow brokers manipulating things to go their way, it's the super rich doing it very publically right in front of everyone with impunity
In the U.S. this used to be under control. Once you "earned" over a certain amount the tax rate went up. Then politicians drastically lowered the rate (Reagan was the worst of them) so the wealthy could amass ridiculous amounts of money. And now all that money is used to bribe not just politicians, but fund lobbyists (to get more money, of course) and buy courts. Yet voters keep putting grifters in office and then whining that they can't get ahead.
Giving billionaires tax breaks isn't helping regular working people at all.
And it never has, but the rich keep pushing the discredited "trickle down" trope that dense voters keep falling for. Spoiler: Your chances of becoming one of the wealthy are about as likely as you becoming president. Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Stop enabling the wealthy from stealing from you. Eat the rich.
Climate change is real, it is happening , and is an existential threat to future generations.
The climate change denial is being funded by the fossil fuel industry.
A C-section is a MAJOR surgery and some ppl want them right back at work or doing all the housework 🤦♀️
Social media is poisoning our children’s brains, as well as many adults.
One fears for a society that cannot identify clear and present dangers.
In America, we could have better. We could have healthcare and infrastructure and utilities and innovation *unrivaled* in the world, but we just... won't let ourselves have it.
Corporations control America, not the parties.
History does indeed repeat itself
Yeah, humans aren't too original. And the old scams continue to work, generation after generation.
That most religions are scams designed to sucker money from people by preying on their fears and insecurities.
That paying attention to your smartphone while driving can lead to deadly consequences.
Trickle down economics doesn’t work
The trickle is the wee wee that politicians do on us from a great height
Narcissistic abuse. People really don’t believe victims most the time. I hope to bring awareness to it.
Government subsidies contribute to big oil profits. They are turning in $4-5 billion profits per quarter but still get government handouts. WTF?
If no one gets paid enough money no one can afford to buy things. If no one buys things they won't make as much and then people lose jobs. Companies are all about under paying and over profit, but those same employees are the ones that are paying their bills.... If your employees cant afford your products you have a problem.
Economies are dependent on money being exchanged. The 1% cannot keep an economy running because they invest far more than they spend. Poor and working class people spend money...and there are a LOT of us. The 1% won't suffer because money actually trickles UP.
People are being easily manipulated by the Faux Outrage Machine.
The vast majority of the population is easily manipulated. Rupert Murdoch just turned it into a business empire. Thankfully his expenses lately have included $787 million for pushing outrageous lies that got people killed.
A grown child going No Contact with their parent means that their parent must have done something to break the innate trust a child has toward their parent. It's the child who needs understanding in this situation, not the parent.
Children are "programmed" to love their parents, it's what ensures their survival etc. That love is deep and doesn't go away just because a parent was a little mean once. It requires consistent betrayal of the childs trust, abuse/neglect/etc.
I would agree with this the majority of the time, but not every case is like this. I have a narcissistic family member who walked out on all of us (including her parents) because we refused to allow her to continue to gaslight us all. Her parents tried HARD to care for her but wouldn't stand by and watch her abuse her children so she went No Contact 30 years ago.
Amazon is actually terrible. It’s full of cheap junk and counterfeit items. There is no reason for Bezos to hoard so much wealth.
Bezos is a wealth hoarder for the same reason a dog licks his balls: Because he can.
Rubbing scents on your skin will not cure cancer or any other disease. There is some evidence that lemon oil has anti viral properties because lemons do and the menthol from peppermint oil can help alleviate headaches….but swallowing essential oils or rubbing them on your feet is not effective 99.99% of the time.
The system works for those for whom it was made to benefit.
The US Constitution was written by white, male landowners, so of course the first thing they did was disenfranchise everyone who wasn't a white, male landowner.
No legitimate business makes you pay money to work for that business. So many people in an MLM do not understand this, but yet shell over hundreds to thousands every month to maintain their "platinum XL Diamond-coated/Bleached A*****e" tier of their membership to Herbalife or whatever they belong to as an MLM.
(I live with someone in my graduate school who drank the Herbalife Kool-Aid...)
Anyone have a clue as to why that picture was chosen to illustrate this particular posting? Normally there is some logic but I am struggling to find any connection between Herbalife and Chelsea Football Club
Our phones are robbing us of our attention and ability to enjoy life
Your phone isn't "robbing" you of anything. Your choice to waste vast amounts of your time and energy on c**p you can't control is what is wrecking your life.
That everyone is the main character of their own story happening simultaneously with everyone else's storyline
It's only annoying when someone tries to be the main character in everyone's story.
If the government wanted us to have it, we would have had it by now.
If you live in a democracy YOU are the government. Your vote decides who makes policy. Stop voting against your own interests. If you really wanted it, you wouldn't vote for the tool who denies it to you.
Noses. They're literally right there, in front of all of our faces and eyes, and yet, 99% of the time we completely ignore its presence in our sight.
Poll Question
Why do some people deny obvious things?
The truth is too painful.
They are genuinely oblivious.
They do it for the sake of arguing with someone.
If people don't see it, that means it's not that obvious.
Big one these days: human rights should be universal, but aren't. The basic things needed for survival are regularly denied or made more difficult for vast swaths of our species for arbitrary reasons, usually by local majorities against local minorities.
Yeah, but my phone is cheaper if children in toxic factories make it, and the gas to go buy it is cheaper if we blow up brown people in a country I can't find on a map. Sooooo... yeah, clearly an unfixable situation. /s
That sometimes you are not entitled to your opinion. If your "opinion" contradicts facts, is racist, racially prejudiced, homophobic, transphobic, etc, then it is not an "opinion". It's bigotry.
Shaky ground here. Of course I agree that everyone, no matter what, should be treated with equal respect, and some opinions are totally off base. But you are entitled to whatever opinion you like, regardless of how wrong it is. What should be done instead of banning wrong opinions is educating people about the right opinion. Banning opinions has historically not been a great decision.
Load More Replies...Maybe more like, just because you have an opinion doesn't mean it should be treated with the same respect and weight as the opinion of someone actually educated on an issue at hand. So many people think their opinions are equal to that of a doctor's or scientist's just because they "believe" this or that.
I believe that everyone is entitled to an opinion. It's the expression of said opinion that matters. Also the fact that just because you have an opinion on certain issues doesn't mean that others are required to share it.
Yes, and if you think you are somehow magically the only person whose bigotry is justified, just remember so did/does every other bigot in history of humanity.
Every one has a right to an opinion, do they choose to share that opinion? Also an opinion is subjective and if it breaks the law should be dealt with accordingly if put in the public arena. But sometimes an opinion is offensive but doesn't break any law. So you just need to put your big pants on and get on with life.
People have a right to be wrong... Its uncomfortable but true. Considering God is the only one who has all the correct answers, each of us has to experience things for ourselves or believe evidence presented to us.
Don’t drag deities into this. People really do need to take responsibility for themselves.
Well, you know, everyone is entitled to their opinion - they’re not, however, entitled to bray it all over everywhere without getting a social response. You are also not automatically entitled to be taken seriously by anyone anywhere. If your opinion contradicts facts, it’s a misconception and will be met by corrections. If your opinion is that rabid racism is ok, you’ll be seen as the useless cυnt you are. If you’re transphobic, you’ll be received as a bigoted waste of space. So, having an opinion, sure. Expecting said opinion to automatically hold any weight to other people in reality - not so much.
Daylight Saving Time, aka The Great Clock Manipulation, is coming year around because commerce wants it, not because it is helpful. It's good for business but bad for humans.
That rational people can disagree about many of these 'blatantly obvious' things.
And even if they disagree they are not necessarily; racists, stupid, uneducated, nazis, rednecks.
Load More Replies...Being able-bodied is temporary for 100% of people. 20% are currently disabled, so stop being mean to them. One day it will be you.
Big one these days: human rights should be universal, but aren't. The basic things needed for survival are regularly denied or made more difficult for vast swaths of our species for arbitrary reasons, usually by local majorities against local minorities.
Yeah, but my phone is cheaper if children in toxic factories make it, and the gas to go buy it is cheaper if we blow up brown people in a country I can't find on a map. Sooooo... yeah, clearly an unfixable situation. /s
That sometimes you are not entitled to your opinion. If your "opinion" contradicts facts, is racist, racially prejudiced, homophobic, transphobic, etc, then it is not an "opinion". It's bigotry.
Shaky ground here. Of course I agree that everyone, no matter what, should be treated with equal respect, and some opinions are totally off base. But you are entitled to whatever opinion you like, regardless of how wrong it is. What should be done instead of banning wrong opinions is educating people about the right opinion. Banning opinions has historically not been a great decision.
Load More Replies...Maybe more like, just because you have an opinion doesn't mean it should be treated with the same respect and weight as the opinion of someone actually educated on an issue at hand. So many people think their opinions are equal to that of a doctor's or scientist's just because they "believe" this or that.
I believe that everyone is entitled to an opinion. It's the expression of said opinion that matters. Also the fact that just because you have an opinion on certain issues doesn't mean that others are required to share it.
Yes, and if you think you are somehow magically the only person whose bigotry is justified, just remember so did/does every other bigot in history of humanity.
Every one has a right to an opinion, do they choose to share that opinion? Also an opinion is subjective and if it breaks the law should be dealt with accordingly if put in the public arena. But sometimes an opinion is offensive but doesn't break any law. So you just need to put your big pants on and get on with life.
People have a right to be wrong... Its uncomfortable but true. Considering God is the only one who has all the correct answers, each of us has to experience things for ourselves or believe evidence presented to us.
Don’t drag deities into this. People really do need to take responsibility for themselves.
Well, you know, everyone is entitled to their opinion - they’re not, however, entitled to bray it all over everywhere without getting a social response. You are also not automatically entitled to be taken seriously by anyone anywhere. If your opinion contradicts facts, it’s a misconception and will be met by corrections. If your opinion is that rabid racism is ok, you’ll be seen as the useless cυnt you are. If you’re transphobic, you’ll be received as a bigoted waste of space. So, having an opinion, sure. Expecting said opinion to automatically hold any weight to other people in reality - not so much.
Daylight Saving Time, aka The Great Clock Manipulation, is coming year around because commerce wants it, not because it is helpful. It's good for business but bad for humans.
That rational people can disagree about many of these 'blatantly obvious' things.
And even if they disagree they are not necessarily; racists, stupid, uneducated, nazis, rednecks.
Load More Replies...Being able-bodied is temporary for 100% of people. 20% are currently disabled, so stop being mean to them. One day it will be you.