List of Bad Things

The Reasons Why explain every kind of “bad thing” that can happen. The folloiwng is a list of tragic experiences people face which are specifically addresssed in the book Five Reasons Why Bad Things Happen.

You are diagnosed with a chronic, painful illness.
Your business fails and you lose everything.
Your home is destroyed by fire.
Your mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Your best friend gets divorced and has to move in with you.
Your infant is diagnosed with an incurable disease and will need a transplant or he will die.
Your wife leaves you for another man.
Your husband loses his job and stays home every day drinking.
Your spouse leaves and takes everything and you are forced to file bankruptcy.
You get into a car accident and kill someone.
You are sent to prison for a crime you did not commit.
Your car is stolen.
Your home is broken into and you are raped.
Your are exiled from your country
You are exposed as a fraud on national TV
Your child is abducted
Your sister is injured in a car accident and is paralyzed on one side of her body.
Your son goes to war and is a prisoner of war.
Your wife gets breast cancer.
You lose all confidence in yourself and become a hermit.
You are fired from your job.
Your boyfriend sexually abused your children.
You are in the witness protection program and are forced to leave everyone and everything you know.
Your boyfriend/girlfriend leaves you after 10 years together.
You have to have a hysterectomy and won’t be able to have children.
You have an illness that puts you on long-term disability.
You have prostate cancer and will no longer be able to perform sexually.
Your husband leaves you alone when you are 8 ½ months pregnant.
Your home and neighborhood is destroyed in a hurricane.
You flunk out of college.
You get arrested and are sentenced to 10-20 years in prison.
You have to pay child support for a child you didn’t want.
You are 15 and pregnant.
You lost all your money and savings.
Your child runs away from home and lives on the street doing drugs and working as a prostitute.
You think of suicide all the time.
You know other people’s problems may be worse than yours, but you are still devastated.
You are forced to live on the street.
Your son is arrested for rape.
You were born without the ability to see.
Your daughter is convicted of murdering her children.
You are paralyzed from an accident.
You lose your entire family in a tornado.
You have a different, serious crisis every year.
You have to have your arms amputated.
You witness a gruesome murder.
You are drafted to fight in a war you don’t support.
Someone is trying to kill you.
You hate the way you look.
You fail at everything you do.
Your family thinks your beliefs are crazy.
Your boat capsizes and you are lost at sea.
All your friends abandon you.
Your mother won’t talk with you.
You lose everything and have to move in with someone who is abusive.
Your father beat you as a child.
Your dog is killed.
Your country is the victim of a terrorist attack.
You are stranded on a deserted island.
You were falsely accused of abuse and lost custody of your children.
Your business manager steals all your money.
Your spouse/partner cheats on you.
You are diagnosed with an illness that makes you lose your ability to think clearly.
You have a lifelong struggle with your weight/body image.
Your daughter is murdered by her husband, but he’s free and has custody of their children.
You contract an incurable sexually transmitted disease.
Someone close to you is dying.
You are at death’s door.