If possible at all, of course.
It helps a lot that the assholes are not doing well. The Epstein thing has made it easier to breathe.
Going to protests helps too. The energy of the crowd really feels good and assures me that the people are on my side.
its all about setting your boundaries being able to say thats enough for today. being able to ask yourself if what you are listening to is new facts being relayed to you or is it speculation to fill air and stop listening if it’s the latter.
Activism, contributing to your community, making the world a better place. The crazy-making part is that you know it’s crap, and that you feel like you have no agency to make it better, right? Well, doing something to make the world better makes it feel more tolerable, even if the bit that you’re working on isn’t related to the specific badness that you’re paying attention to on the news right now.
And yeah, there’s always the possibility that what you’re doing backfires, or has no effect, but if you don’t do anything at all, then there’s no possibility of having a good effect. Also, obviously no one normal person can fix everything, you just pick a bit that seems suited for you and work on that.
Second the hell out of this. It can take a lot out of you emotionally, and you need to take breaks, but I feel so much better when I’m among others who are also working to make positive change.
Because there’s always a possible path out of the forest…
Sometimes the path gets dark, sometimes it changes directions.
But there’s always a path thru it.
Sometimes you need an up-armored Komatsu D355A to cut that path through the forest.
Oh yeah, the Heemeyer variant model. Solid choice. Really solid choice.
That tracks
The news is primarily billionaire propaganda. It does not add value to your life. When it’s important you’ll hear about it, and then you can read up. You don’t have to be the first to know. Nothing bad will happen to you for being less informed.
Good news readers can help you get lots of the content you want with only a quick passing glance at the headlines so you can still carry a conversation/contemplate the inescapability of this planet
If somebody talks about world news or politics, I’d rather drop the conversation. Willful ignorance is about maintaining a good state of mind, and that includes not talking to some people about such topics.
I ignore the news, because I’m probably dying withing a few years, so I’m just chillin’ and enjoying whatever’s left.
Don’t need to make depression worse, I’m not a politician, I can’t change anything.
I’m not a cis white dude (I’m Chinese-American), its not my fight. Like what am I supposed to do? Protest, get a lot of attention from the government, and then get labeled a “CCP Spy” get set to some gulag. Then they’ll raid Chinatown and pillage everything. Then some of the first-gen inmigrants are gonna go on wechat and blame me for “stirring the pot”. I mean, can you imagine if Thomas Matthew Crooks was a gay black guy? It would’ve been so much worse. So much scapegoating. If I do anything, they’ll just scapegoat everyone that looks like me.
So good luck y’all, my health is deteriorating, don’t have the brain energy to take action, and I’ve already accepted death, literally hurts my brain to think.
That’s the neat part. I don’t. I’m depressed as fuck.
And how does keeping up with current world events help you in that situation?
If something like 911 happens again you’d find out anyway, just an hour later that you would now.
I’m not being paid to care about all that benign bullshit so I don’t anymore
Because I don’t think sticking my head in the sand is good either. Besides, it’s not just abstract far away things that are bothering me. A lot of what depresses me in my personal life is connected to the broader problems we face as a society. I kind of can’t ignore that if I want to make sense of my own life. That doesn’t stop it from feeling hopeless, but the alternative isn’t really an option even if I didn’t care about others.
I was depressed before I kept up on current and past events.
You don’t.
I read news once a week and this is it
It’s tough. Stick to AP, Reuters if you can afford it. The entire news environment is pretty crazy right now though. I think once the US gets through Trump the rest of the world might calm down some and we can all relax a little bit.
Thing is I look at start of obama to end and how long it takes to get back to where we could be and at this point it takes much longer than how long things were degrading. Biden did a crazy amount of stuff in his term and it still did not get through what trump messed up in his first term. Then take the lighning fast pace of destruction with all the federal agencies. Getting those to where they were is not going to be easy. So muhc lost institutional knowledge. Unless the right loses so much support it becomes completely inconsequential and we have a decade or more of relatively sensible policies I just don’t see a relaxation point.
Yes, 100%
But we have to get through it or the biggest power left in the world becomes a shithole country. We can’t get him out and just have to endure.
I’ll be here after Trump and I hope you are too.
oh yeah certainly. Never give up! Never surender! Unfotunately its going to be one of those times in history that is very significant but I would prefere not to live in.
I’ve figured that I can either be informed or happy. Not both.
One day at a time and knowing that at some point I will no longer exist.
I’m not sane I take my meds I only pay attention to non sensational news (Reuters,NPR,AP) I spend time with loved ones I have no interest in associating with conservatives.
