To feel utterly depressed and hopeless about the cruel world we live in

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What is the world coming to? So many cases of child abuse and cruelty - there's so much of it around.
Plus, parents being killed whilst children asleep upstairs, asylum seekers stuck in freezing cold woods for weeks on end, no food or milk for babies. A humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan... I could go on. what World are we living in?! Surely every life is as important as another, but it seems not. Where's the help for these people, what can we do to help?!
Sorry for the depressing rant, I just feel utterly hopeless this morning.

Sorry didn't explain that well. It's very harrowing, didn't watch he video but saw the still and read a few lines of what he said, heartbreaking.
PP have given given helpful advice on this thread - thank you.

People do kind things every day. Millions of people. Some people do incredible things. Remember reading about a young teen jumped into the Thames a twenty something woman shouted “why is nobody helping him” and jumped into the Thames off a bride after him. She survived he didn’t but Jesus can you imagine! No one made a fuss about it it was buried in the article.

I'm not watching the news and have reduced TV watching generally. I have enough to cope with IMO.

You are right people do do remarkable acts of selflessness and kindness every day for no reward or recognition.

Hi everyone, just wanted to say thank you so much for all your replies. It gives me some solace that I'm not alone in my distress for that little boy. It's too late to save him, bless his soul, but I truly hope we can all make a difference somehow. There's been some really good ideas on how to do that, I'm going to look in to some volunteering locally and also focus on little acts of kindness.
It sounds so bloomin' trivial when I write it down, but this afternoon I dragged myself out of the house, and my baby and I went for a walk to run some errands. On route I returned a dropped glove to an elderly lady... I didn't see her drop it but just asked her on the off chance, and also dropped off a care package to a friend who's got covid. Really small things, but the focus and the walk did me some good.

Take care everyone and let's spread the kindness

I've felt like this all day today.

Just general horrid news but I suspect the case you're referring to is what tipped me over the edge today.
I read another story on it and I cried at work
Just depressing all of it.

Just reading through the other comments and yes the same case.
The one about the mum and her girlfriend the other week really upset me too.

And to echo a pp.
I'm usually a "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" school of thought.
But I truly hope they pay for this every single day in prison.
I hope they feel the fear he did.

Those poor jurors

@EvilPea

Those poor jurors

Totally agree, the things they have had to listen to and watch...I admit I have cried a couple of times yesterday and today over this case, it seems to have been going on for a while.

I hope they are offered counselling.

I also wondered about the hairdresser who said she 'wished' she had reported, would you ever get over knowing you hadn't acted?

I've also tried to avoid this particular case. I used to live in the area and my DD went to the infant school nearby, which I presume he did too. I still have close friends nearby. I'm trying not to think about it.

I read about what I think prompted this post and it completely knocked the wind out of me. So devastating and does lake you lose faith in humanity a little

That news story appeared on my internet home page today, without warning. I never want to watch the video, but I saw a quote from it that’s utterly heart-breaking and will haunt me. If only we’d known what was happening before it was too late.

For me, the only solace is that he is at peace now, and no one can ever hurt him again.

While it is true to say, as so many have, that there has always been shit in the world, it is also a fact to say that there has been more and less of different forms of it at different times.

Britain has a real and growing problem with cruelty and violence. It's already more violent and aggressive than the continent, and it is getting worse. Knife crime is going up. We can do better, and we have to do better. That poor child.

That poor little boy 😢

I remember being very affected by the baby P case at the time, I had just become a mum myself and I cried a lot about it. I just kept thinking I would have had him and looked after him, I bet thousands of others would have too. The thought that a child can feel such despair is heartbreaking. These people should never see the light of day again, it takes a special sort of evil to do something like that.

@LucentBlade

The world has sadly always been like this it’s just that with modern communication systems and social media it’s information readily available.

This 💯

The worlds always been a shitty place for most people. We just happen to be fortunate enough to be born in to privilege that others can only dream of.

It is so easy to feel like this, it makes me feel sick, empty, desolate, total sadness through my whole body when I think of lots of cases, and Year on year there are more and more such cases, it is easy to let that feeling to take you over.

But you cannot stop these, you cannot change these, you can't go back and save these people or change history as much as you would want to, so all you can do is live as well as you can, give to charity, support those that do make a difference and if you see any signs of abuse report it. But there is nothing to be gained for anyone by risking your mental health by allowing your mind to dwell on this too much imo.

I wish I had never heard of this story - I feel like I will be haunted by it forever. I haven't watched the videos and never will.

The whole thing of "most people are decent, these things have always happened, we just hear more about them now" etc doesn't make me feel any better at all because even if these things are true how would that have helped that poor, poor wee boy?

Children are a precious gift that so many good and kind people are denied. I do have a faith and hope with all my heart that that wee boy is in a better place. Darling wee boy, you deserved to be loved and cherished, I pray you are at peace now.xx

Star in Keighley too, rip my angel

:( it’s devastated me too. RIP darling boy. You are loved x

I can't stop thinking about him either, you just want to hug him.
Sleep easy sweetheart

I even feel for his mum, what she did was bad but what her son suffered is beyond words.

I can't help think what other horrific things happened in lockdowns when kids were home 24/7 that we don't know about 😢

This story has broken me. Awake now thinking about that poor, poor boy. I wish I hadn't read about what happened because it's so hard to understand. What he went through just does not bear thinking of,

Do you think lockdown played a part? I just can't grasp that this situation was hidden, If school had been open, his death may have been prevented? I'm truly not blaming lockdown, school or anyone other than those monsters responsible, I'm just trying to understand how this happened with no intervention? God I hope we learn from this.

Do you think lockdown played a part?

^

Yes. And I think there'll be a lot more incidents like this exposed. When children are at home 24/7 and not in school or in contact with society their situation can go from bad to absolutely dire. Which has happened here, I'd say. Not that that is an excuse.

I agree op. I do not like human beings much. I don't think there is more good than evil. I think there is more laziness, apathy and denial than anything else. We're programmed to want gratification, very rarely are we altruistic - if ever, you could argue, as there's always some selfish benefit behind 'good' actions.
I avoid the news. When I was younger, I'd lie in bed almost going mad thinking of all the animals suffering at that very moment and how powerless I was to stop it. Now, I manage to block it out most of the time, until I see a lorry full of animals. Thinking about children with terrible lives in also beyond bearable.
Denial is the strongest of human emotions, not love. And we need to practice constantly it in order to go about our day to day lives.