It would help if we knew what country the OP was in so we can help them find these resources.I understand, that's frustrating when it's beyond your control. Are there any support hotlines available for discussing things around you? Might be worth checking as even though it's less personal than face to face it might be something to help carry you to the 20th with a little more ease and calm.
Seriously dude. This this thread going to be a weekly thing from you going forward?
Not sure how to feel about my life at this point
How do you deal with the fact that your life hasn't progressed at all?
How do you deal with anger over happy people?
Have you been so frustrated with the current state of the world that you just don't want it to be fixed?
After what's going on in the few past years, are laws necessary in society?
Have you have had moments where you just don't feel anything at all?
Ever feel like your life doesn't matter in any way possible?
Focus on your own happiness first. Hope doesn't pay bills.It's not just right-wing groups seeking power to make things worse for anyone who's not white and upper class.
It's also climate change. The effect it'll have on Earth, the ecosystem, the species, and future generations.
Not only that, but the continuing social, racial, and economic that still plague the world for many years with no end in sight. Will the marginalized groups ever live their lives without fear or being treated as lesser beings? I doubt it
For anyone who still have hope that the future can be good or things can be fixed, I can't help but feel they are deluded they still believe that.
Like.... how can you keep believing that there's a hope for the future?
In all these threads OP is offered advice, apparently turned down, that's the whole point.And exactly what is the point of pulling the receipts on OP, outside of shaming them for apparently having issues with mental health?
These types of comments are very unhelpful. Please approach these kinds of discussions with more kindness an empathy. This just comes across as a complaint and not actual concern.
For anyone who still have hope that the future can be good or things can be fixed, I can't help but feel they are deluded they still believe that.
Only 75 years ago the planet was involved in a worldwide war, with mass genocide and millions dying. Less than 200 years ago, black people were literally owned by white people from cradle to grave. Less than 50 years ago the US was using napalm and bombs to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians in a country half way across the world. 40 or so years ago we had an ever increasing hole in the ozone layer that protects the planet from bombardment with dangerous radiation from the sun.It's not just right-wing groups seeking power to make things worse for anyone who's not white and upper class.
It's also climate change. The effect it'll have on Earth, the ecosystem, the species, and future generations.
Not only that, but the continuing social, racial, and economic that still plague the world for many years with no end in sight. Will the marginalized groups ever live their lives without fear or being treated as lesser beings? I doubt it
For anyone who still have hope that the future can be good or things can be fixed, I can't help but feel they are deluded they still believe that.
Like.... how can you keep believing that there's a hope for the future?
Don't take this wrong, but I think it's deluded to mistake cynicism with realism
Every generation has had this sense that they'll see The End or be the last.
Imagine, for example, growing up between the 50s and 80s with the threat of global thermonuclear war hanging over your head.
I get the feeling that doomsayers are an expression of a sort of collective, generational existential crisis more than anything. Everyone's death is the end of the world to them, and maybe those anxieties get unconsciously expressed in the blah blah blah. No evidence; just a hunch.
There are a ton of reasons why everything seems particularly gloomy at the moment, but the big one is - as banal as it is - the internet and it's economy of clicks/outrage/worst case scenarios, coupled with 24 hour rolling news cycles.
No attention is ever given to any stories with nuance, nor are they given sufficient room to be expressed (tweets, for example, are small and zip by), so every story tends to lean towards the extremes simply to get noticed.
(That's not to suggest that climate change isn't an immediate threat, I just think the single biggest hurdle to overcome in combatting it is the nihilism - and thus, inaction - it inspires because of how huge it seems.)
I would suggest going offline for a while, get some sunshine and friends, and see if that makes a difference to your outlook.
40 or so years ago we had an ever increasing hole in the ozone layer that protects the planet from bombardment with dangerous radiation from the sun.
I'm glad you're in therapy, it takes a great deal of courage to take that step, more than people can imagine if they haven't done it. Good for youUnfortunately, they're only available during March and my regular therapist isn't gonna be back until 20th of January, so I'm in a bit of a slump
This easiest time in human history there has ever been to live. The People before us never had any of the amenities and ways to communicate that we do yet we have more depression and lonliness. Makes you think..
There was no time in history when people weren't depressed but people really need to use the law of relatively in their lives. We all have days we think suck but in comparison to what? People on a PC or phone in a home or whatever complaining about shit on the internet when there is obviously an enormous population of people doing far far worse even if there is also a population of people doing better. The things people complain about most is shit that already happened so all you can do is control what you do after that and the other things they complain or scared about literally have not happened. Their lives are controlled by shit that has never even happened or other people's perceptions making them mental slaves.This is obviously a specifically western-centric comment, but people way back were too busy trying not to die from dysentery or whatever to have the time to be depressed.
Plus, I doubt depression was understood or even recognised as it is today, so if people were suffering, it probably wasn't 'reported' as much.
...but people really need to use the law of relatively in their lives.
By not having a defeatist attitude.
Yes climate change is a very real issue that needs to be addressed.
Yes racial, social and economic issues are all very real.
It's still an objective fact that for the majority of people that world is a far better place than it ever has been. That's reason for hope.
There are a ton of reasons why everything seems particularly gloomy at the moment, but the big one is - as banal as it is - the internet and it's economy of clicks/outrage/worst case scenarios, coupled with 24 hour rolling news cycles.
No attention is ever given to any stories with nuance, nor are they given sufficient room to be expressed (tweets, for example, are small and zip by), so every story tends to lean towards the extremes simply to get noticed.
These types of comments are very unhelpful. Please approach these kinds of discussions with more kindness an empathy. This just comes across as a complaint and not actual concern.
And yet, millienials feel they're in a tight spot financially and see no light at the end of the tunnel
Why that's the case if the world itself is "objectively better" at the current state?
No one here is qualified to help people with real depressive thoughts. A forum is not the best place to do that anyway. I honestly believe OP needs help, he's been posting things like this for months. What is the goal here? Is it a call for help, I don't know. I just wish he would meet a professionnal in the real world. I actually worry for some folks here. The future ain't set but the present is fucking real, and people under depression sometimes do terrible things.
Alright, since I've given myself some time, I may as well get it out of the way:
First of all, I'd like to heavily apologize to all the people for propagating those endless despair threads I've put for the last several months. It was unacceptable and irresponsible of me to keep doing that.
Secondly, I am dearly sorry for ignoring or pushing back against any and all advice from fellow ERA members to seek professional help.
I felt so lonely and in utter wreck mentally that sometimes I create these threads as a cry for help. Should've known that I might've hurt some people in the process or at least talk to a family member or a close friend
Once again, I am very sorry for this and I feel utterly ashamed that I kept making these threads until now :/