235
submitted 1 year ago by FauxPseudo@vlemmy.net to c/news@beehaw.org
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Kindajustlikewhat@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know if this will be helpful, but I wrestled a lot with dealing with despair/fear from upheaval as well. Mostly climate like I said, but I used to cry for days thinking about kids starving in Venezuela, for example (that's a crisis from many many years back).

Studying history actually helped me cope. Just learning about the past like 5000 years of human history and how much upheavals and famine and war and civilization collapses there have been.

I kind of realized that feeling like the world is ending (as we know it) is the NORM rather than the exception for most of human existence.

We've been exceptionally lucky in Western countries for the past 300ish years. But that caused us to believe that's what's to be expected. It's not.

It just helped me understand that humans have survived through lots of things. And the turmoil comes with being alive.

this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
235 points (100.0% liked)

World News

22009 readers
135 users here now

Breaking news from around the world.

News that is American but has an international facet may also be posted here.


Guidelines for submissions:

These guidelines will be enforced on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis.


For US News, see the US News community.


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS