And I don’t mean metaphorically tired, like physically tired. I feel like since Trump took office the amount of mental load consumed by his antics (edit: fascism in general) has physically worn me down. I used to have energy to exercise, do hobbies, or like even yardwork. Now all I want to do is lay in bed. I even have a hard time spending time with my family and friends. Luckily I am still engaged and productive at work, but that’s the only time I feel good which is not what I want out of life.
I probably should just up my antidepressants and log off
That’s a default state for me for the past 5 years lmao
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what has happened in the last 5 years that could make someone tired.
[Ah! I remember. It must have been Biden]First time?
Well I also used to be five years younger. Actually it might be six now that I think of it
Much more in line with this. Gaza started before Trump (the current genocide, and all other tragedies), climate change dismissal is bipartisan, our rights have been sold or bargained by liberals, etc. Trump is just an acceleration of the status quo, so it feels weird to link him singularly to current listlessness
I’ve had a black hole where my heart used to be for the last two and a half years.
You are not the only one. In fact, I would say there are more people out there who are tired than not. Shits exhausting. Everyone I talk to is burnt out.
People are working more, sleeping less, and that’s not even accounting for the increase in health issue over the past few years (it’s not just COVID, the younger generations had their mortality rate slowly increasing before that).
Man I feel you. I have been keeping my exercise up, and I own a contracting company so I am forced to remain productive, but I just feel depressed like 99 percent of the time. It’s not just Trump, it’s everything though.
Yeah I am being a bit reductive here, it’s all of the fascism, the genocide, the idiotic trade policy, and things seemingly just going swimmingly for the absolute worst people in the world
For the trade policy at least, I take a step back and admire how fantastically self-destructive it is. Yes, sure, I’m going to feel the consequences of it. But. Also, it’s not like there was some other scenario where wages weren’t going stay stagnant or depreciate relative to inflation. The historical trend was always going to be multi-polarization and decoupling from US finance. Now its just happening in years rather than decades.
yes, feeling thinner and thinner, too little butter over too much bread etc etc
There’s a long and growing list of things I would like to do and would enjoy but I can’t seem to find the activation energy to start
I think most people around the world are exhausted.
That is yet another contradiciton of our capitalist system, requiring hard working labor for profit extracton, but wearing down the workers to the point of exhaustion.
And as any other contradiction, it is unsustainable.
Not just you. Two of my close friends have been consumed with doom and lack of a future to look forward to. They don’t do their hobbies; they don’t want to do new things; they’re just burnt out by it all.
Yeah I’m pretty close to just checking all the way out of looking at the news
Basically what I’ve done besides this website. My problem is that I’m not in any IRL orgs that actually do anything to help anything and I don’t have the time to, so the news just fills me with an impotent despair. I don’t see the point anymore until there’s something I can meaningfully contribute towards a solution.
I made this decision a few years ago and it has really helped me. I’m still organized and involved in my community, but when I’m off I’m off.
For me this is the defining problem I get from my long covid. I describe it to doctors constantly as feeling like a rechargeable battery that’s out of juice. No one has any fucking answers as to why this is. I can’t even find the energy to exercise any longer and I used to LOVE doing that. Life has become an endless slog with no means of escape other than death.
Between work and school (and before that a horrible black pit of grief and depression) I have basically 0 energy for anything else. Feels like I’m always playing catch-up, with school, with bills, with life.
I’ve been dreaming about dropping everything and trying to become a baker, but I’m afraid that’s just my latest “the grass is greener on the other side” impulse that’s led me to job/school hop my entire adult life
I’ve been dreaming about dropping everything and trying to become a baker,
I’ve had this exact same thought. I like baking, its fun. But the getting up at 3 am thing is a little much lmao
The 3am mornings would be rough, but if I’m able to work alone that would be worth it
You just gotta get on that TikTok Baker grind. Do a bunch of ASMR cookies with a bad bunny song in the background.
Ugh I’d rather get up at 3am and earn an honest living than churn out “content”
I feel like there used to be a bit of dignity with “content” production back when you’d basically run a long form channel that was equivalent to a TV show. There’s just something yucky about having to filter your craft through brain rot.
Yea, I could see the appeal of doing like a weekly/biweekly release of longer form videos, something one can put thought and effort into, but it seems like the current trend is short form shorts/tiktok style content which doesn’t appeal to me at all.
Plus if I saw a video I made spliced together with Minecraft parkour I’d have an aneurysm
I’m thinking like Alton Brown style “hey look at this cool thing” type videos. Those are totally different. I have noticed a lot of tiktok cooks/bakers starting to make long form videos again though. With the TikTok just being an ad essentially for the longer 10-15 cooking/baking video that actually shows you how to do something instead of something just being done.
I feel like my baseline the past year has been tired with bouts of absolute exhaustion.
It’s not just Trump, it’s the world in general. Things are unaffordable, jobs are unattainable, climate is breaking down, health is declining…
It’s hard to see any hope or a glimmer of positivity. Maybe I need antidepressants, but logging off would probably help me.
I feel like I haven’t had a good night sleep in years
I feel like since Trump took office the amount of mental load consumed by his antics (edit: fascism in general) has physically worn me down. I used to have energy to exercise, do hobbies, or like even yardwork. Now all I want to do is lay in bed
You’re not alone, my therapist brought up recently that he talks with a lot of people who feel very overwhelmed and exhausted by it all.
I probably should just up my antidepressants and log off
I can’t advice about the meds, I can advise about the logging off: hanging on to every word or new development is exhausting. Hypervigilance is exhausting. It’s also bad for you, and you’re suffering the effects. Idk about “log off”, but you could try to keep your internet stuff to the cozier spaces so as to not be exposed to the constant stream of trumpian disaster news. I rarely go off Hexbear.
I will also plug this effortpost I wrote. It doesn’t seem like a 1:1 transferrable siituation, but there’s some stuff that could be helpful. In particular if you understand that he uses threats, uncertainty, and unpredictability to control people, make them easier to dominate and goad into extreme-seeming reactions. Now that I write it out that way, there are similarities with abusive strategies in interpersonal relationships.
