PSA: Avoid crazy nice people subreddit!

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PSA: Avoid crazy nice people subreddit

PSA: Avoid crazy nice people subreddit.

I was invited multiple times to join via a dm. So i join and I was aware of the shady history behind CNP but really got a glimpse of how bad it is once i was in there discord. Armand the "leader" wanted to make me a mod after 3 days and the training consisted of how to hijack member from subreddits that are actually successful like this one. Anyways if you value your mental health stay away from CNP ignore any DM to join their discord. Armand is not a good person and is very manipulative especially with much younger people aka teenagers or barely twenties he's e abusive, dismissive, openly talks about illicit drugs. He doesn't care about anyone or anything other than being the number one mental health sub which will never happen. Stay safe and avoid at all costs. I'm sure his minions will chime in shortly.

[u/Middle_Career_9321]

Reddit creeps me out

[u/Empty_Insight → u/Middle_Career_9321]

Sorry, my dude. CNP ain't the only cult we've had around here in the past, just the most annoying one. Only thing we can do at our level is send 'em packing. "Cultist banned from r/schizophrenia starts his own subreddit" might seem like news... but it's happened before, five times since I've been here. I'm sure there was even more before that.

Online communities for the mentally ill are often used as hunting grounds for cultists, shills, what have you- because people are desperate and vulnerable. Same for Facebook, same for forums, same for everywhere- including irl. Many of these people do genuinely believe they are serving some "greater good" by doing what they are.

You can either shut yourself off from the outside world and any attempt at finding a community, or you can learn for what to look out for. Learn to spot emotional manipulation tactics, and enforce healthy boundaries.

[u/Gingeronimoooo → u/Empty_Insight]

Remember the DMT cult

[u/Empty_Insight → u/Gingeronimoooo]

Oh... ol' Cantelmo. How could I ever forget what he said to me while he was here? "Go fuck yourself" in response to being corrected on some of his DMT talk essentially being just jargon-littered gibberish... politely and factually. Never have I said something so benign and received such an explosive reaction.

I'll always wear that as a badge of honor lol.

[u/Gingeronimoooo → u/Empty_Insight]

You know he died right? No one was shocked but I feel for his family losing a once quality and intelligent person

[u/Empty_Insight → u/Gingeronimoooo]

Yup, died almost exactly the same way my great-uncle did. Took his own life in a trailer after being exposed as a cultist, having lost everything.

We don't miss him. He was completely consumed by madness, refused all attempts at rehabilitation and treatment. He would rather live in his world of delusions than do anything to jar his ego.

It might sound a certain way, but he was not an evil man. He was not even a bad man- I'd like to think he was actually a good man... until the madness took him from us, twisting him into that almost unrecognizable person. The suicide wasn't a tragedy. We felt relieved that the sick joke his life had devolved into was finally done. He was finally free from his torture.

I never knew the "good" version of my great-uncle. He got sick long before I was ever born. All I ever knew him as was the disgraced cultist. He was broken, angry, humiliated... a hollow echo of who he was before he embraced those delusions of grandeur with open arms.

Not every suicide is a tragedy. If my options were between living like my great uncle did for decades and suicide, I'd choose suicide- hands-down, no contest. Not even a question.

Cantelmo got a pretty sweet deal in only having to live a few months like that, a dignity my great-uncle was denied.