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You will find that there are lots of folks these days that have trouble coping with the collective stress of a bleak present and future.
Meds just help us feel closer to normal so we can function instead of having a nervous breakdown every other week.
I’m a little envious that you have the resiliency and coping mechanisms outside of meds to deal with it all
I grew up in poverty, surrounded by poverty. Rural midwestern town. Population 2,000. Started working jobs 14.
Became a teen dad. Then ended up being a single teen dad when I got custody.
Couldn't afford college, even with grants. Refused to take out loans.
I didn't have time to doomscroll and wonder when the world was gonna end. I had shit to take care of. I didn't even have the time and/or money to drink! I worked two jobs for a huge part of my life.
I didn't give a fuck if a democrat or a republican was in office, because I had to go to work and feed my kid. I'd vote for who I thought was best on election day, then move on, regardless of who won.
Now I'm retired at age 55. My house is paid off. I have no debt. Live in a beautiful mountain city of 500,000 people. I have chickens in my backyard, and I'm working on running a Lemmy instance on a server that runs on solar power. Just because I can and I have the time.
I also don't give a fuck that Trump won. I don't care. I didn't vote for him. Lots of people did. Ok, cool, onto the rest of my day.
My point is that a lot of people would be well served by not worrying so fucking much about the state of politics and the world at large. So many people on Lemmy make being a democrat a main part of their personality.
And how did that work out? The doomscrolling is not good for you. The world won't end just because Trump is in office. I promise.
I didn't have time to do any of that worrying shit. I worked hard, made it out, and now I just fuck around on Lemmy all day, write and publish my fiction, and take trips with my gf.
If I can do that, with my dull brain, then most people on Lemmy can.
No hate on meds, but meh, I wouldn't have been able to afford them anyway.
I don’t know if this is something to be proud of tbh.
You’re basically saying ‘my life is secure; fuck everybody else that hasn’t got what I have’.
I’m glad you built a good base for yourself, now help lift up others. It doesn’t stop sucking for everyone else just because you check out.
IMO you have the obligation to create the environment that allows what you have (an existence without worry for politics) for everyone.
So what are you doing that's creating that type of environment for me and others?
I’m an active union organiser and volunteer emergency service worker.
My day job is responsible for helping people with extremely disadvantaged backgrounds.
And my day job until just a few months ago was special education teaching assistant in an elementary school in a disadvantaged neighborhood. I recently retired from working in the public sector for 20 years.
Feel free to check my post history from the .world instance from months ago, when I was still teaching there. I spoke of my career often.
Guess we are more alike than different, friend. Funny how that works, huh?