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What makes you sad every time you think about it ?

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Imaybeacat · 29/10/2021 20:33

There’s been a lot of sharing story threads so i’d like to start one - to start such a sad one Blush
What story or fact about somebody/something etc makes you sad whenever it crosses your mind ?
For me it’s a late singer named Tiny Tim… I watched a video about him a few days ago and it’s been bloody depressing me . Whenever he pops into my head I have to go take a break and do something distracting!! Poor guy. Sad
Need to feel better. Am I alone in this ?

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Lonelycrab · 29/10/2021 20:54

Apart from the god awful state of our govt as a pp has mentioned..

The way that the planets climate has been

BeyondMyWits · 29/10/2021 20:55

The fact that many kids around the world have to drink filthy water when we flush our toilets with drinking water.

And many go hungry when we have whole supermarket aisles devoted to many different varieties of food for dogs to eat.

delilabell · 29/10/2021 20:56

The lottleb girl called poppy who's dad abused her so badly she died but the police lost a lot of the info and he was never charged.
And Sarah Everard. That she got in that car believing him.

Thesearmsofmine · 29/10/2021 20:56

One of my school friends who died when we were 10, it makes me so sad that she never got the chance to grow up and live her life and so sad to think of her mum who so many people used to avoid when they saw her because they didn’t know what to say.

A friend who lost her bab at full term.

So many cases of child cruelty, sad to think of any child frightened when they should only know love.

Lonelycrab · 29/10/2021 20:56

Oops
The worlds climate has been imbalanced meaning our children have a really hard timeSad

FusciasBright21 · 29/10/2021 20:57

Oh my goodness those are so unbelievably tragic Sad

Mine is the women living in terror in Afghanistan at the moment, and the women who have already been executed by the Taliban. I read recently about a sportswoman in the national Afghanistan youth team (can't remember the sport) who has been beheaded Sad it's just so unjust

ParkheadParadise · 29/10/2021 20:57

Dunblane massacre
💔💔💔💔

TillyDevon · 29/10/2021 20:57

The sound that came out of my gorgeous friend when her amazing ds was buried after cancer. I echo the other things here, and can’t bear children not being protected . Some news stories are too much to bear.

TillyDevon · 29/10/2021 20:58

Yes I hate thinking of people in Afghanistan too, and of girls not going to school any more

ItsDinah · 29/10/2021 20:59

Photo of Keith Bennett,one of Brady and Hindley's victims. His poor mother spent the rest of her life looking for his remains. I don't know why it should be his photo in particular. I think might be because he was smiling so happily and unself-conciously at the camera.

feelingsicknow · 29/10/2021 21:00

I used to work in a type of library/archive. There were a small number of heavily 'used' (ie popular) items but I used to feel sorry for the items that were never 'ordered up' ie. no one was interested in looking at them. Ever.

I think about it regularly.

Same as songs. I wonder if every single song ever recorded is at least ONE person's favourite song somewhere in the world. If not, i feel sad.

Apart from those things, I cannot see an elephant now without thinking about that same documentary a PP mentioned. Literally breaks my heart.

I do realise I am a lunatic by the way (the documents and songs thing) 😂

RicherThanYew · 29/10/2021 21:01

Rebeccs Aylward from Bridgend area, I truly feel for her Mam. There have been too many stories not dissimilar to that of Rebecca just in South Wales.

On a less serious and sombre note, Jessie from Toy Story.

Tittyfilarious81 · 29/10/2021 21:01

James Bulger I can't watch any programs about that sweet child I just start to cry even if I see his picture 💔

feelingsicknow · 29/10/2021 21:01

Perhaps mine is too lighthearted 🤔 Sorry.

PinkMoon22 · 29/10/2021 21:02

The little girl Asiah who was left for 6 days when her mum went out drinking.
I can't bare to think what that little girl went through

JaniceBattersby · 29/10/2021 21:04

Aberfan. Can’t even bear to think about it. All those dads digging through the rubble.

The book Mama Do You Love Me? Crying just writing the title here.

Goawaymorningsickeness · 29/10/2021 21:08

@Pebbledashery

Watched a documentary of Victoria Climbe a while ago, a still photo flashed up of her face and it was just so horrifically upsetting. Still think about it now :( I wish I had known her and was able to put my arms around her and show her what love was :( it was so sad, all the trusted adults in her life treated her so abhorrently.
I read the official report whilst working as a child protection detective. It was absolutely shocking the number of opportunities that were missed. A truly horrific cock up from start to finish by all the agencies involved. Reading that report made me much more alert when dealing with risk.
LetsGoFlyAKiteee · 29/10/2021 21:10

Aberfan..just the whole tragedy. Watched a documentary and the guilt of the mums whose children didn't want to go to school that day but were sent in.. gahhh.

Bradford fire..the man who lost his elderly father. He tried to get help for him but time he found someone it was too late and the stand was gone up..and a man who couldn't find his grandma

Cattenberg · 29/10/2021 21:10

A documentary about new treatments for children with cancer. A three-year-old girl was featured and she was absolutely lovely - so joyous and so brave. It seemed as though she’d turned a corner and was going to make it, but she developed side-effects from her treatment and passed away. I rarely cry at the death of a stranger, but her story touched me deeply.

LadyJaye · 29/10/2021 21:12

A brilliant, beautiful friend of mine who died of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) at the age of 30.

RIP, Gregor - you are still missed and loved by all of those who knew you.

Duckypoohs · 29/10/2021 21:13

Don't understand these threads anymore, they are like emotional self harm. Like the what is the worst thing someone has said to you ones, why would I want to dredge through all my worst memories and repeat for someone else. Likewise why why would I want to read others worst memories?

It's odd.

BeyondShrinks · 29/10/2021 21:17

An old school friend of mine was murdered. Bad enough - obviously - but what makes me especially sad was the way her boyfriend disposed of her body; like she was rubbish.

RicherThanYew · 29/10/2021 21:17

@Duckypoohs I can't speak for others but i don't want people to forget Rebecca.

JudgeRindersMinder · 29/10/2021 21:17

My mum’s descent into the hell that is Alzheimer’s at only 57…she passed away almost 12 years ago but as I get closer to the age of her diagnosis (early 50s now) the life she lost preys on my mind more and more

Cattenberg · 29/10/2021 21:19

I read the official report whilst working as a child protection detective. It was absolutely shocking the number of opportunities that were missed. A truly horrific cock up from start to finish by all the agencies involved. Reading that report made me much more alert when dealing with risk.

I read it too, while I was temping at a Social Services department. I remember thinking that if every professional who’d met Victoria had got together in a meeting to discuss her case, the outcome would have been very different.

I also thought about how vulnerable Victoria was due to her language being French, not English. Her abusers were allowed to interpret for her. That poor little girl.