• Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Sometimes when it gets overwhelming I don’t do any news or social media at all for a few weeks. It seems to help my mental health, particularly when every bit of news suggests that everything is going to shit.

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      6 hours ago

      when you stick your hand on a hot stove and feel pain, it’s so you know to do something about it. you don’t want to shut that off.

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        6 hours ago

        Yeah that’s a fair point. Thing is, I don’t know what to do about this shit (Gestures to world). I used to get involved in a lot of direct action when I was younger but I’m a bit old for that now. And I can’t really say that all the times I got battered by the police, arrested on airbases, shit like that - I’m not sure I made any difference at all. Some of those actions made headlines but those were mostly negative. And I know people say “Vote!” - but I do, and that doesn’t seem to help either.

        So yeah, sometimes I just don’t use the stove for a while. I just feel a bit fuckin defeated.