Is it just because the collapse is getting particularly bad and everyone is extra miserable? (Me too, hard not to be down when the world is burning and you can’t afford food.)

I have this stupid thing where I feel the need to help, but I don’t know what to do… I’m sorry if I annoy everyone. I feel powerless.

Feel free to delete this if it counts as too meta

EDIT: I don’t really know how to react to everyone saying such heartfelt things, other than saying thank you.

  • Comrade_Mushroom [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I don’t know if this is not a common opinion, but I do think that this community has a tendency to focus upon societal negatives often to a degree that is unhelpful and unwarranted. I find myself having to take breaks for my mental health because I’m constantly being presented with major problems that neither I nor anyone else here can do anything about.

    Some stuff I find more acceptable, like I feel it’s important to be aware of what is going on in Palestine for example… but shit like “omg omg there’s microplastics in your brain and also you’re gonna get turbo bird flu with a 90% kill rate holy shit” just gives me psychic damage with no outlet to do anything about it and little moral imperative for focusing on it. It just feels like doom-saying for the sake of itself.

    Obviously it’s better to be aware of these kinds of issues than not, but fixating on it to the point of seeing posts about it sometimes multiple times a day doesn’t really accomplish anything but to stoke anxiety, which I’m already pretty much maxed out on.