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Honestly, in my work as a therapist, I’m seeing this A Lot, and tbh I still don’t have a satisfactory approach to it. A heavy dose of Existentialist “create your own Purpose” tempered with “when the plane’s going down, put your own oxygen mask on first”, but… yeah, there is no ethical way to work on individual emotional distress without acknowledging the systemic socioeconomic, geopolitical fuckery going on at the moment, and the sheer grief that comes with it.

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I’m a guidance counselor/psychologist for teenagers and it’s getting really hard to motivate young people to work for a future they don’t believe in.

They look at ther future and see global warming, wwIII, unemployement, political unstability, poison in everything they eat, the earth and animals dying all around them.

I saw this video where someone was asking french teens in the 50s how they imagine the future would be. The war hadn’t been over for long and yet it was all positive with like peace and flying cars and such. Then they went and ask the same questions to nowadays teens and hell that was depressing. Some still had hope, but it was just that “well I hope I’ll have a nice house and maybe some kid” but there was such a hesitancy to it, like they didn’t dare to hope too much.

People mock Greta Thunberg but what they don’t get is that when she said “you stole my dreams”, it was the truth.

Young people don’t get to dream like they used to. They don’t dream anymore, they grief all that won’t be anymore and that’s just so fucking sad.

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Not to be super depressing on main but the steady decline of how much I’m even able to tolerate watching the news has gotten to the point when I just walked out of the room today. Some days I don’t mind that much, I do want to know what’s going on in the world and what Trump and the Republicans did today, but more often than not now I just don’t even have the energy to watch. The very Done™ looks of pitiful overwhelming sadness and conveyance of “wow that’s just the way the world is now huh” of the newscasters is present every time I watch. I turn to comedy shows to present the news in a tolerable way.

I’m old enough to be starting on my Future Goals and Life Plans now, old enough to have these idealistic goals of a future, but I’m young enough to have worked in the terror and reality of the world into them. I can’t study abroad anywhere I dream, I can’t go to just any good American university. I am pressured to study/focus my research projects on social justice issues. It many ways I am safer as an obviously queer person because there are others like me out and proud, but at the same time I become a target in an environment that doesn’t even discourage terroristic attacks and mass shootings. I feel the existential guilt of not going into a hard STEM field to help “save the planet”. I grew up excited to Reduce Reuse and Recycle! and now I realize that didn’t even matter because big corporations will do more damage in a minute than any amount of recycling my water bottles will work to undo.