Have you ever seen someone blow up their life for no apparent reason? What happened?

People who do this (blow up their life for "no apparent reason") almost always have some type of severe trauma that came on early in life. That, or they're just mentally unwell and have somehow been hanging on in life. Most of the time these types have parents who coddle and pay for everything.

Sometimes it's sad, sometimes it's not, depending on how mean-spirited the person it, but it happens all the time.

No one tell this guy God doesn't exist

It wasn’t a competition. People are sharing stories. Thread continue.

Interesting topic. We have had a few spectacular examples of this with media figures in the UK recently. This week's one is the BBC newsreader Huw Edwards, who has managed to pay a teenage boy 35,000 GBP not to reveal that Edwards had persuaded him to send him compromising photos of himself. Others have now come forward to say that they have received unwanted or questionable contact from the same individual. Edwards is married with 5 children and in his fifties.

A few weeks ago it was the ITV presenter Philip Schofield, who the previous year also blew up his life by announcing he was gay. He too is married with children. The next year, it blew up again because of a scandal over the age of the young man he had an affair with and how he got him a job with ITV. Apparently, his affair partner was also a teenager and there were denied allegations floating around that he had groomed him while he was under the age of 16. Many believe that the real objection to Schofield though was that he didn't report his peadophile brother to the police, despite knowing of his crimes with underage male children.

Thats just in the last month. Its been in the news every single day. The British love to build people up then tear them apart. That said, many people would be fired from their jobs if they had such messy personal lives and work colleagues accusing them of inappropriate conduct. Or even increasingly, if someone posts something controversial online. I know I wouldn't dare risk posting an opinion about trans women in sport, because its the sort of thing a UK employer would fire you for. Unless it was to support trans women in sport of course.

Prior to that, we had the former Health Minister, Matt Hancock, being forced to resign due to his affair with a married aid. He then appeared on a reality tv show while still an MP. There have been numerous Prime Ministers and Chancellors coming and going over the past 2 years. I've lost count.

These blow up your life type scandals mostly seem to involve married men with children who secretly prefer very young or teenager men. What that says about the preferences of the typical British male, I would not like to say.

I believe this to be true. I've got two (or three?)...

My wife's grandmother is from Kentucky coal country. Her extended family lived in a holler that was loaded with coal, so they were making boatloads of money. She was, according to her, "married off" or "sold into marriage" in different tellings, to a guy from another wealthy family when she was 15. She had two kids, but eventually left KY with another guy. She was essentially disowned for that. Gave up her life, her substantial money/inheritance, and left her kids behind. She married, had 4 kids, never had any money, but generally led a happy life, as have her latter 4 kids and grandkids. At the time, in the late 40s, that was considered completely crazy. But I get why she did it.

The other is two people who were in my phd program in pharmacology. A large part of the department studied drug addiction. Two students who were involved with each other went missing, along with a large amount of cocaine from the lab. A few weeks later, she was found dead from an overdose, and he was eventually found blasted out of his mind and charged in connection to her death. Both were successful publishing and landing grants in grad school, and were both well on their way to successful academic careers. I do not understand this one at all. I didn't know them well personally, so I can't comment on their mental health.

When I was in my 20s (20 years ago), I worked with a guy that would brag about having the school record in the mile. He’s in the record book as running a 4:42 1600 as an 8th grader. I don’t know if the pressure got to him, the partying, or both, but he didn’t do anything in high school and didn’t even go to college. He works at the same pizza shop to this day.

Need more info on phd nightmares.

.Western society is run on bad decisions. Its hope is to make you feel terrible about yourself so you spend money to feel less terrible. It's good for business when someone insecure and jealous feels the need to overspend on school, cars, clothes and homes to keep up appearances.

cocaine is a helluva drug

I believe that you were being disrespectful to his brother, for one bc you question whether the story is even true. show some respect

he doesn't need your help, obviously. you on the other hand.....

I do think you could lose your job for posting or supporting a post about keeping trans out if female sport.

Oscar Pistorius was on top of the world, fast, famous, rich, gorgeous girlfriend.

Then he threw it all away in an instant.

Look at my face? Bovvered? Face? Bovvered? Face aint bovvered.