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Due to a confluence of shit going on in my personal life and shit going on in the world right now, I am feeling particularly #hopeless about the future right now.
So much so that I'm kind of paralyzed and unable to do anything productive... which just makes me feel worse, because there's all this stuff I really need to do that I can't.
What's the point? Everything's burning down and it seems like the best we can do isn't nearly enough.
Easier to just give up and do nothing.
Ugh.
#depression
in reply to Jonathan Kamens 86 47

I hear you and I get it. Completely. The only thing keeping me moving these days is intermittent short meditation sessions. I can't do them for too long as my mind starts to wander, but I find they give me the energy to keep going.

Sending warm hugs from down under.

in reply to Jonathan Kamens 86 47

If u can turn off the firehose of bad news machines and get into nature, or just outside, that is always a good start.

Sending good vibes your way:)

in reply to Jonathan Kamens 86 47

This 'favorite' is a "yeah, I know what you mean and I'm sorry I don't have anything better to say about it."
in reply to Jonathan Kamens 86 47

I run with the jellyfish principle. Find something short-lived or simple enough that all it knows is right now and improve that; “made a difference to that one” at least still works out to helping something somewhere.

Where possible extending this up to community members, even helping with very small things, can have bigger ramifications later. Tipping points, the bad & the good, are rarely clear in the moment, thus hope is a course of action instead of any sort of feeling.

in reply to Jonathan Kamens 86 47

Apologies, especially in the second sentence I can see where it sounded prescriptive rather than declarative, which is an editing artifact rather than the intent (redraft a lot to fit character limits.)

I see it often dubbed a typically neurodivergent mode of expressing sympathy to say “I’m dealing with that too by XYZ, sometimes it works out” - whether that demo association is correct, it’s a communication of intended fellowship. Hope it gets better, dull as that sounds.