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** Or the other reason for eating disorders, people feel they have so little power over their lives that they withhold food from themselves because this, at least, is something that is completely under their control. When you think about how helpless they must feel the rest of the time to make starvation seem positive...
** The above reasoning applies equally to the other end of the eating disorders spectrum - binge eating - right down to the media influence (food/restaurant advertising, the [[Big Fun]] trope, etc.).
* While not commonly as life-threatening as eating disorders, many other mental disorders also qualify. People affected by them may look a little quirky, somewhat creepy or outright comical. But when you actually understand their problems and think about them, it's often the most "funny" examples that will become the most disturbing.
** Your neighbor has a checking compulsion and after walking out of his house always checks like ten times if the door is really closed? Just imagine he checks ''everything'' he does ten times afterwards. The simplest tasks become incredibly exhausting.
** [[Hollywood Tourette's|Tourette syndrome]], especially the severe forms with coprolalia and copropraxia. Think about what it's like to have a strong urge to insult - or even hit - the person right in front of you, although you love this person and never want to hurt him/her? And that urge becomes ''worse'' when you suppress it. And everytime you finally give in to it, you risk becoming more lonely, losing your job or even suffer legal consequences. Especially if you live in a [[People's Republic of Tyranny]]... Not to mention a bunch of other, less disruptive but still embarassing tics you're likely to have as well.
** Being ''extremely'' afraid of something totally mundane. To the point you do ''anything'' to avoid encountering it. Which is nearly impossible because that thing is nearly ''everywhere''. Think about how much this can ruin your quality of life.
** Imagine the following: You just suffered from a psychotic break and [[Obliviously Evil|killed someone you loved]] because at that moment you believed that this person is evil and [[I Did What I Had to Do|you had to do so]], to protect yourself or even [[Omnicidal Maniac|the whole world]] from him/her. Later you recover from psychosis, and then you realize [[My God, What Have I Done?|what you have actually done]]...
** You are so unhappy with your current situation that you commit suicide... and then you find out that your afterlife (if it exists at all) is [[From Bad to Worse|even worse]].
* Some scientists predict that because of dark energy and dark matter, the universe is expanding faster than they originally predicted and will some day burn itself out and the universe will end in something they call the "Big Chill." I repeat, the universe-meaning space, time, matter and even reality itself-will some day cease to exist. It won't happen for another several billion years, but it's still pretty scary to think that a [[Apocalypse How|Class Z apocalypse]] is inevitable.
** Gravity is one of the weakest forces in the universe, and is easily overcome by an ant. Now, remember Black Holes. These things use one of the weakest forces in the entire universe to such colossal effect, it can crush ''literally anything'' to such an unimaginably tiny size, it may as well not exist any more. Entire stars that make the sun look like a pinprick are torn utterly to pieces and ''completely disappear'' into a something the size of a ''grain of dust''... by a force which, on earth, can be easily overcome by a magnet. Just take a moment to consider how apocalyptically powerful these things are.
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*** And they might not even notice this. They might be focused on something entirely different than the green little thing that is wiggling right now.
** If humans can "create" a universe in a computer, what if ''that very universe'' we live in is also a simulation of something ''even bigger'', started by some superintelligent creatures in another, yet more complex universe?
** And now combine this with the possibility that some "files" get deleted. Yours. Or the one which represents the earth. Or that the "simulation" stops suddenly, [[And I Must Scream|bringing everything and everyone to a halt]]. Maybe it will then be restarted later, after a few things have been changed... The sun has been replaced by a black hole, the most recent twenty years have been erased entirely, and (if you're older than 20 now) you [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|suddenly have grey hair]]... Cue [[Cosmic Horror]].
* Remember the butterfly effect? This time, think it in reverse. In distant history, if some really, really tiny detail would have been different than it was, chances are you would have never been born. One of the most obvious examples of this is the Diproton catastrophe (see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_helium#Helium-2_(diproton) here] for details and sources): If the strength ratio of nuclear and electrostatic forces were a little different so that the diproton was a stable particle, the complexity of our current universe would likely have never been possible.
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