The History of Crazy Nice People

Given where we are now, it's hard to believe how we all got here to this point. While each individual involved has their own unique origin story, they can all be summed up with a single word. Similar.

Reddit could be called our hometown that we all grew up in. It doesn't matter exactly what subreddit we were using. It doesn't matter how active we were or weren't. One way or another, we all found ourselves posting at least one single comment to Reddit. That is how we came to notice one another. This went on for years for some of us. Scrolling many bananas. Posting and commenting in search of answers to our mysterious conditions. Doing what one does on Reddit when one is psychotic. One fateful day, something different and unexpected happened. We encountered a person who invited us to talk with them on Discord.

Immediately one thing was noticed. It was a lot quieter. Only our texts were being seen and read. It removed us from something we all knew deep down about the subreddits we browsed. It just didn't become clear until it was gone. The toxicity. While the mental health sites are safer than your average subreddit, the toxicity is simply irremovable so long as they inhabit that platform. The Discord server we inhabited had no toxicity. There was something more. It wasn't simply interacting with non toxic people. There was a special level of niceties present. Perhaps it was because we knew we shared a common ailment. Maybe we just chanced upon meeting others that similar. Whatever the explanation, we found this level of nicety to be therapeutic.

It wasn't long before we decided we should bring in more people. We needed to see if others felt as we did. Of course, if we were to be inviting people to our little club, it needed a name. It was on the tips of all of our tongues. Perfectly descriptive. Perfectly simple. Yet, according to Google, never spoken before. Crazy Nice People! The name has stuck and never changed since. Its a legacy name.

Sadly, the internet did what the internet always seems to do. It tries to ruin good things being done by good people. The name calling started. The lies began to be spread. Worst of all? The most hurtful? The most damaging? The most traumatic hate perpetrated by anyone? It was dished out by those who run the communities we were quite literally attempting to flee. A lot of tears were shed. In some ways, it even brought us closer together.

Now, as this brainchild of ours enters a new era as it brings real life help to psychosis sufferers in need in the form of a non profit charity you can read about on this site called CNP for the WIN, we won't sully its reputation by stooping to their lowest of levels. We will instead have faith in the Hollywood expression "All publicity is good publicity". We will use their attempt to drag our good name through the mud and simply reverse it into our very first advertising tool on Reddit. Their hate will make our attempt at philanthropy popular. They will lose

Does anything said by hate spewers have truth? That question is best answered with another question. Would the most toxic group ever to inhabit the psychosis support subreddits(they had the audacity to say this) ever decide to devote their time and effort to a completely selfless act to help underfunded public psych wards in poor living conditions? There is only one possible answer. "No"

The Crazy Nice People are the do-good folks who are going to turn hellish psych wards into, at the very least, some form of tolerable purgatory. THAT will be the history of CNP that everyone remembers for the rest of time.