Can I ask how exactly you're getting through this right now? Because for the life of me, I don't know how to focus on ANYTHING. Nothing seems to have much of a point. Like, I'm supposed to focus on corporate life while the most horrific shit imaginable is happening? I am NOT built that way.
You’re not alone. I feel incredibly alone and isolated in this. Not focused, not functional. This what they want. It’s kind of the point actually. People who can’t focus -can’t really organize-can’t fight back can they?
I have had to start my day with putting me in a little bubble, putting on some binaural beats, and journal writing. What I recognized is sitting here in my living room this is my bubble nothing can enter here except for what I invite. You have the power.
This. Exactly this. Currently have a margarita in one hand, weed in the other, and prescribed meds for my chronic illnesses… still not doing well. We weren’t made for this next level evil that the GOP have embraced fully being led by an actual sociopathic narcissist pedofile.
Focus on taking vacations, making small improvements in your life and your loved ones lives. Work to improve yourself. Improving yourself helps improve those around you and your community.
weed…wine…still struggling
Find local purpose and community
Help somebody else, either in your circle or anonymously. You are more at peace when you pause the doomscrolling in your head and just act out of kindness. It will confound your enemies.
Yep. It's called compartmentalizing. And it sucks, cause it's like "haha that was a great meeting Jim, good work!" *peaks at the news* [81 dead in Gaza] "Oh wow Jenny these cookies are great!" [Trans people banned in all red states] "Eric, you gonna get me that file by EOD?" [5 dead in NYC]
Rechecking myself, due to the distraction of all this. Not listening to any audio related to it whilst driving. Placing safety checklists. Reassuring myself this is not the onset of MI; it’s prudent.
Same. Occasionally something dire happens in my personal life to make me so worried that I stop thinking about everything else, then it's back to the horror, the terror, the shame, the astonishment, the disbelief...
unless you own the corp who gives a fuck about them, you owe them nothing and they owe you everything. you are doing them the favor by working for them, if companies don't want to pay like you are they can at least admit it and treat employees with respect.
If you can do little things for the people around you that make them feel good about themselves or that they are loved that really helps. Or get some Freudenfreude - leaning into the joy when good things are happening to people you know. And then rest and have low expectations for productivity.
We have each other ❤ I limit the time I give to the news. Watch shows I love (Resident Alien is a good one, rn), listen to music and read books I love. Spend a few minutes a day sending energy to... speed certain things along. And finding inspiration like this:
I we have to find our victories first. I’m doing ok with that most days, but I left the corporate exploitation safety net behind 7 months ago. I dropped it off along with my public masculinity. I’ve bound together my feminine self, my aspirations, and my success. It’s scary. Still, I endure.
Refuse to let them defeat you. Find joy wherever you can. For me, I've been hiding in books, bad tv and gardening. Also trying to live in gratitude for all you do have. It's a struggle but we cannot let them win, nor can we hate like them, if we do, we become just like them.
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Thank you. 💜 truly.
You are not alone! You are also on the right side of history. This too shall pass. There have to be more of us than them!
Trump, and every horrific thing he says and does, has seemed to have occupied my thoughts now for 10 years. he is ruining the lives of hundreds of millions of people. Some, are literally dying because of him- others, like us, are just in mental anguish.
You are not alone. 💙 I've been reading a lot. Journaling my story and what is actually happening. Listing atrocities and their arbiters. Largely writing about the people who give me hope because they are the people I choose to remember and hopefully teach my future children about.
I feel the same way. I'm watching my whole demographic get erased from each aspect of society literally day-by-day, watching allies turn hostile week-by-week. And I have no people to share burdens with. Just have to keep grinding on. I'm so burnt out I can't even enjoy any hobbies.
I cannot begin to tell you how grateful I am for this post. I’m not getting through this. The weight of it colors every shred of our existence. You cannot see one thing in whole without its reference point.
And the good news is you’re not crazy!! We’re all feeling it!
If I didn't have kids and fur babies, I'd sale my house, get and RV and go either to Canada or Mexico… I survive because I have no choice as a single mom.
The thing that’s hardest for me is waiting to see if there is some kind of breaking point or if this is just the new horrible normal. For most people there seems to be no bottom and as so long as they remain somewhat comfortable who cares about everyone else.
Pretty sure I have acute food poisoning or a stomach bug (lean twords food poisoning because no fever/weakness) so I’m not handling shit right now.
All joy feels stolen and safety is an illusion. Pretending this is normal is exhausting.
Maybe we were looking too hard at the trivial and not hard enough at the transcendent.
Every single day is more heartbreaking than the next.
I refuse to be a bad person just because it’s rewarded behavior. This small act of rebellion keeps me going.
Yes, continuing to strive to be better myself, and working to help my child value humanity is my anchor to sanity. I have a small project to prod my MAGA neighbors to think critically. My neighbors are natural conservationists, but have been trained to love oil, gas, and nuclear and hate renewables.
I love it when real-world policy forces them to engage their brains. trib.com/news/local/b...
All factors must be taken into account when planning an energy strategy. Storing used nuclear fuel with reasonable safety has to be part of the answer. I've wondered why the residual heat it produces can't also be harvested for energy, so even the disposal will yield a dividend.
And if the site remains an energy harvest site, it's more likely to not be forgotten by future generations.
daily to-do list has 2 sides 1: the usual things from Before- dishes/appts/bills/etc 2: things to try for some kind of peace- breathe/drink water/knit/listen to birds/etc & I do something to fight back every day - call reps/postcard/protest & I remind myself They want us to despair so I damn well
try not to, at least not for long... These resources have helped: Jessica Craven's Chop Wood Carry Water daily actions chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.substack.com 5calls.org 5calls.org?gad=1&gad_so... www.newharbinger.com/978162625113... and a book:
I force myself to look away. Hug trees, do crafts, stare in the void, read. Something, anything, to look away. The world comes back but my intervals away help me to cope. I wish you Good Karma, Alyssa.
It's truly very hard.
I pet my dog and watch old tv shows from the sixties and seventies.
meditation is how I'm getting by, as much of it as I can muster up. Honestly, I feel like I've been caught in white water river rapids and will go under any time.
I’ve been depressed since the election in November. It’s a heaviness.
It's exhausting. The first term was bad, this is intolerable. I will never be the same.
I should be retired. He took that from me. Keeps charging me for student loan debt I’ll never be able to pay off and I now owe more than I borrowed. Think some shithead in a mask is gonna scare me? I’m taking as many as I can with me. FDT
My wife is struggling so badly, we are literally leaving the country. Visa to Portugal was approved last week. This shit is not normal. My wife served and was deployed. This shit daily is triggering. And she is a black female LPC who has her own practice. If we stayed, she'd have a heart attack. FDT
I lot of people feel this way. You are not alone. It means you have a soul. What we are going through is a great trauma. Our country is under attack.
How are you placed? Is it such that "corporate life" (as in big business) expects your focus? I'm a "talks to God weirdo" but even worse, I get answers (in circumstances).
And so, it seems any trouble isn't permanent.
I try to unplug.
i remind myself that i'm an animal, not a god, and am not physically equipped to take on the suffering of the entire planet or even one whole country. i don't make myself feel guilty for not doing anything when there simply isn't anything i CAN do, and i focus on doing things that make me happy.
maybe it seems selfish, but i spent my childhood/teens feeling guilty for a ton of stuff that wasn't my fault, that nobody should ever have made me feel responsible for, and i'm done with that now. as long as i am alive i will strive to enjoy my life, since it's the only one i've got.
plus, you really aren't doing anyone any good just being miserable. if you take care of yourself, you'll be better equipped to actually do something when the opportunity arises.
I'm focusing on what I can control. My family, my home. Those are what matter. The rest will take care of itself.
Reading posts like this are the only way I make it through the day. I just need to know it's not just me that feels such deep despair! I'm not overreacting and I'm not alone!
Agree. Feels like insanity.
Even removed, by living in Australia, I find some days are overwhelmingly bad. Those are the days when I give myself permission to have time out. Take a day off from the media, all media. Unplug, grab a book, and head into a safer world, even for a few hours. Breathe.
THIS. My brain can't NOT think about it all & panic/obsess over it, meanwhile on the zoom call somebody drones "Unify and evolve our digital strategy by expanding existing initiatives and leveraging current efforts as a foundation for accelerated impact to payoff 2025 personalization opportunities"
All part of the Republican plan. The Project 2025 agenda. Create a barrage of fascist actions and edicts that overwhelmed us and make us political apathetic. It's won't work. It isn't working. America is now mobilized. Like never before.
Screaming fuck a lot helps. We're going to get through this somehow. 🫂 💜♾️
What can you control/influence? I try to focus on the beauty I can see, and address the problems I can change… but yeah, shit feels grim
Focus on your immediate surroundings and what's important for you. Your loved ones, pets, music, art, sport, video games...
i know i’m powerless to stop the attacks on trans folks so I’ve stopped reading the news constantly and started consuming my free time with projects around and outside my house that require strenuous physical labor. it keeps me occupied and tired enough that i sleep without anxiety keeping me awake
I feel that today. It’s the cruelty to children, I can hardly stand it. Why isn’t anyone stopping it?
I try to remember that anything trying to divide people isn’t where my heart is and things that are unifying are best to focus on.
I can’t allow myself to be sick with worry all the time anymore. I focus on what I can, even delude myself occasionally. My little ones help to redirect my focus
Spite and authenticity. And the kitten we found last week is helping.
I’m focusing on cooking for my family, watching movies with my husband, teaching my college age kids how to cook and clean a house. And every single day we talk about whether we need to send them overseas.
I focus on nature. Birdwatching but also bringing trash bags, a trash grabber and gloves with me. Cleaning up something I have access to and control over does help. I also look for invasive plants and remove if possible (report to local authorities if toxic like Hemlock).
I entered an out patient program to address medication and PTSD from 28 years of police work. I am existing in the shadows. I manage a security assignment where I have limited dealings with people. In short exist
If it took 28 years to recognize the cause of your trauma, and medicating yourself to endure it, you may be too slow to become aware. I think the people you avoid are the real winners.
Honestly the symptom never manifested until I retired. Left alone with the rest of my life the terrors came with violent episodes in my sleep. It was at that point I sought help for my wife who suffered with it.
My quality of life and peace is far more important that being heard. Look at this nation in 2025, makes me sick, arguing with people over this is nonsensical and nonproductive. Besides the people who annoy me were not with me through the bad times, dark times, they have little value now.
I have this posted above my desk. Relax Relationships This too shall pass Let it go. I look at it everyday several times a day. Good luck.
I am right there with you
I feel this hard. Some days it’s just rage, others it’s numbness. “Normal life” feels unreal when the world’s on fire. You’re not broken—you’re awake. If all you can do is feel and not look away, that’s already a rare kind of strength.
Nothing lasts forever. This too shall pass. The Renaissance followed the dark ages. Good ultimately wins over evil. History shows a pendulum which swings from one extreme to the other. Life is harmonious, meaning there is a balance to everything. These ideas help me cope. Hope it helps you too.
I clean a lot. It helps work out my stress.
Sending hugs Alyssa 🫂