Woman Dumps Partner Who Believes "Depression Is Just 'Spicy Sad'" and Went Too Far With His Pranks

Couples playing epic pranks on each other are getting trendier on the internet. Social media has become a hub for couples where they come up with new ideas to prank their significant others. Usually, they are lighthearted and everyone has a good time but for one young woman these pranks alarmingly became the reason for her breakup.

The 18-year-old woman with "a history of trauma and PTSD" had her ex-boyfriend pulling pranks on her after watching many prank videos on YouTube. At first, it was all fun and games but then the stunts quickly escalated. One particular prank crossed the line and completely broke the woman.

The woman shared her horrendous experience on the TrueOffMyChest forum on Reddit. "My whole life I've struggled with my mental health, specifically depression, anxiety, and self-harm (I've been clean for a while though)," u/Admirable_Spirit_673 wrote. "I also have a history of trauma, but I don't need to get into that. I made sure my boyfriend knew this when we started dating because I wanted him to be able to nope out of the relationship if that was too much for him to deal with. He assured me it wasn't an issue."

Unfortunately, it became an issue as the OP shared in her post: "He never seemed to really 'get' the whole mental health thing though. He would make comments saying stuff like depression is just 'spicy sad' and people with trauma should just get over it (he also thinks that only veterans can get PTSD). I've tried explaining things to him but he just brushes me off, so I do the best to ignore him." It got even worse when OP moved in with her boyfriend as sharing a space with someone who doesn't care about your mental illness can be tough.

"Recently he started watching couple pranks channels on YouTube, and he started pranking me. At first, it was just small things like putting way too much flavor in my water, or salt in a bite of my food. I laughed it off, it didn't really bother me," the Reddit user added. "But then he started jumping out and scaring me. That kind of stuff really affects me sometimes because of my PTSD, and I tried to explain that to him. He would apologize but do it again the next day."

"Things escalated last week when he put some noise makers under the toilet seat in the middle of the night. I woke up to go to the bathroom and sat down, BOOM. It, being late at night, me being half awake, and the loud noise all mixed together and gave me a full-blown panic attack," she wrote. This resulted in OP crying and having flashbacks for a long time until her partner found her in that state and laughed at her. "He came in because I guess he noticed I was gone for a while. When he saw me sitting on the floor he remembered his little 'prank' and started laughing. I just stared at him for a second, got up, and called him an a**. I slept in the living room the rest of the night," she shared.

After that, she sat down with him and again asserted that the pranks needed to stop. It was a bad sign when he "pretty much sighed and rolled his eyes," but he said he would stop, and for a week she thought he had finally listened to her. Unfortunately, this wasn't the case, and the last prank was the reason OP broke up with him for good. 

"Yesterday I got home from being out with a friend, actually feeling better for the first time in a while. When I walked in the house all the lights were off, so I assumed he was still at work, which isn't abnormal because sometimes he works late. I plug my phone in because it died on my way back home, and when it powered on I got a notification that he sent me a text. It just read 'so sorry, I love you.' I replied saying it's okay, I'll see you when you get home, love you. And I heard his phone ding in the bathroom. That was weird I thought," she recounted. "I got up to go get his phone and when I got into the bathroom I saw him laying in the bathtub. The bath was full of water, there was an empty bottle of pills on the sink, and he was covered in blood. His wrists were cut and there was just, so much blood."

The whole ordeal was traumatizing for the OP, and Reddit users were quick to back her decision to break up with that monstrous man-child. "It's not a prank at that point, it's emotional abuse. Especially since they had previous conversations and he KNEW something like this would f*ck her up and he did it anyway" u/lilwebbyboi wrote. u/dessertandcheese sent the OP virtual hugs while saying, "I don't have PTSD and I would still have broken up with him. You are better off, OP."

Well, the mark of a good prankster is that they know what qualifies as a prank and what doesn't. OP's ex-partner clearly failed at pranking.