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Fuck. I don’t want to downplay your suffering if you’re American, Arab or Ukrainian, an oppressed minority and/or female (I’m neither) but sometimes I feel like empathy is taking a toll on me. It’s a huge weight to add to my mental problems. Thanks for the advice, I’m trying to get my parents on board with the “winding down” on the project while I try to get my mind off things and establish a schedule by trying to work in a help call center (I would have preferred manual labor but they are the only company hiring around that is large and evil enough I don’t mind them losing money through my incompetence in the presumably short time I last).

Original comment content below.

I’m European but after doomscrolling on Lemmy, watching Last Week Tonight etc. I can’t keep my calm over the US election, which is not helping my existing depression and suspected ADHD. The only good thing I did today was not eat much (I’m overweight) and 15 minutes of gardening. I can’t keep todo lists because I’m really depressed over not having completing any meaningful item for weeks, and not even my long-abandoned passion projects spark joy anymore.

I’m afraid things will go very wrong for my mental state if Trump wins. I have two psychologists and a psychiatrist but I’m only meeting them next week. Please help me get my mind off this and maybe even get something done.

  • DirtyCNC@lemmynsfw.comOPEnglish
    14·
    3 days ago

    You haven’t seen my garden and it’s quite barren now that the vegetation period has ended for everything outside greenhouses.

    Anyway, you deserve a pic so here is one from earlier this year.


    (My phone is from 2013 and full of dust)

    • wise_pancake@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      That’s a good size garden!

      My grandma used to have one like that and my best childhood memories are picking vegetables with her and then we’d cook them for dinner

      I never got into gardening except the last couple years and it’s very rewarding in the spring when you start seeing things sprout

      • DirtyCNC@lemmynsfw.comOPEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        I sure hope so, vegetables were fine but we barely got any fruit this year. Trees bloomed early and suffered frostbite.