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Katie Mack

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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

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Paul Guinnessy's avatar Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social
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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.

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Tony Cee's avatar Tony Cee @tonyis.online
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I block certain keywords (and individuals) of outrage and my feed is mostly happy and funny

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Mark, Panther Fairy's avatar Mark, Panther Fairy @starkat1138.bsky.social
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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.

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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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

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Leo's avatar Leo @leogdlima.bsky.social
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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

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