What was the worst year of your life?

[Cyberman]

2010. The year Sam died.

[vorlon13]

. . . and maybe even now you don't want to get used to the feeling they're gone. It's like betrayal . . .

[The Industrial Atheist]

'94 when I first started having auditory hallucinations and was introduced to the clusterfuck that is severe mental illness.

[energizer bunny]

Probably 1996 or 1997. Not sure which was worse. 

There was also a few incidents in 2005 i would like to forget but the rest of the year wasn't that bad.

[The Valkyrie]

1984.

[KevinM1]

‘99

Learned my father was a child molester, my girlfriend left me, my dog died, and I was failing college. The first three items happened in about a 2 month span.

[Astreja]

2003 was pretty nasty -- That was the year I got screwed around at work, had a major panic attack when told that my already too-onerous workload was being increased, had to go on Zoloft for 5 months, and ended up taking a hefty pay cut and working half-time. (Quit the place altogether in '05, and good riddance.)

Dishonourable mention to 2000, the year my marriage crashed and burned (a panicked late-night move, a restraining order and a nasty case of acid reflux were involved). It was, however, the end of an era and the start of far greater things.

[Puke Skywalker]

1987 was shit. Mind you, I was 14 at the time.

[J a c k]

I can’t decide.

1991. It also kind of set the path for many of my chronic troubles. My childhood, joy, dreams, they were shattered and replaced with hate, fear, panic, guilt, paranoia, and depression. I was six.
2004. Same. More humiliating this time. To this day I can’t walk down a street alone and not keep looking behind my shoulder. Fuck paranoia. It’s a bitch.
2016-2017. My ex husband made my life a living hell. I truly wanted life to just leave me alone. It’s November and I’m experiencing the beginning of peace.

Maybe 1991 was the worst, though. It started everything.

[Rev. Rye]

It's rather difficult to say: thanks to the negativity bias inherent in the human species and my own mood disorder, I can remember a lot of things I could cite as evidence that damn near every year of my life has been the worst. But you have to balance it with the good memories.

At this point, I think 2003 would be the best candidate. Puberty coming into swing, bullying at full force, guitar playing losing its novelty, I think that year is probably the one with the least mitigating factors. As I rack my brain, it's telling the best thing I can remember happening to me that year is discovering Father Ted.