As someone in the US it’s so easy to see so many depressing issues from the ravages of capitalism, to war, imperialism, and genocide. How can one care about these issues and hope for change without allowing themselves to be affected mentally?

I’ve been considering this for the past week, connecting it with Buddhist compassion towards the world and a need for mindfulness. But it’s so easy to fall into emotionlessness.

I’ve also thought through the world has always had issues and though some are getting much worse some are getting better.

I have gone to counseling before but they just make it an individual problem when it’s the world.

Edit: doesn’t have to be US centric. Just I’m writing from that pov

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 days ago

      I took some prescription drugs to help with my very real depression and they didn’t work for me. You know how I responded? I stopped taking them. But I didn’t pretend that experience is not only exactly like everyone else’s, but also made me smarter than all the world’s mental health professionals combined. If I did think that way, it would make me pretty idiotic.

      • CallateCoyote@lemmy.world
        15·
        8 days ago

        So you took the pills to find out the same thing I knew not taking them and now you are lashing out calling me an idiot and downvoting every one of my comments though I don’t mirror that same hostility and disrespect. Very cool.

        You know, getting depressed sometimes is a part of the human experience. Some are born into happier conditions than others and some are destined to misery by virtue of the family, class, and culture they came into. It’s all random chance in a chaotic universe. I still think being born human beats being born as a friggin’ tapeworm or bedbug or some other shit animal though, so it could be worse. Just do your best to distract from the depression when it strikes, don’t label yourself with some bullshit diagnostic another flawed ape monster put on you (who no doubt has many of their own mental issues), enjoy the small things, and know that this all comes to an end one day (thank God). Fuck it.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
          2·
          8 days ago

          Yeah this is just you adding a new spin to “I’m smarter than an entire field of study”: self righteousness

          • CallateCoyote@lemmy.world
            15·
            8 days ago

            Man, you really are just a miserable cunt then. Best of luck with that. Maybe those venerated geniuses will come up with that magical solution for you.

            Imagine we’re at a party. I am now grabbing my beer and going to talk to somebody who isn’t an asshole. Don’t follow me.

            • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
              1·
              8 days ago

              Imagine you’re at a party and there’s some idiot claiming to be smarter than everyone else. Imagine what you would want to say to them. Instead, you go home and tell others what a fuckhead you just met.

              But you are that fuckhead.

              • CallateCoyote@lemmy.world
                16·
                8 days ago

                Look, I know that you love me, but I asked you to please not follow me. Maybe we could have had something great, but you ruined it. And that’s on you, kid. I don’t believe in second chances.