Everyone is angry about the world and scared about the future and defensive on account of being pretty sure (correctly or not) that someone else is blaming them for something terrible and I don’t know if any of that will help but it’s probably useful to acknowledge what’s happening and breathe a bit
I wonder how much of this is also about feeling powerless? I try to remember what Joe Rotblat said, that you can start small and before you know it, you've changed the world.
Honestly not a bad idea. One of the good things I got from therapy is to just take ten seconds if I have that tightness in my chest before doing something. Simple, but effective, and if it doesn't work, that means I probably need to admit I need a break.
I don’t really want to armchair-psychoanalyze people but I swear I haven’t seen folks so constantly and universally marinating in their own stress hormones since like April 2020
I feel like you are talking from a privileged point of view. A lot of us are not worried about the future, but mostly struggling to be alive. What people from US worry about is what we from other places are already living. Not blaming you, just pointing out