If anyone else needs help dealing with the dread I cannot recommend picking up knitting enough. You are literally creating something beautiful and useful out of nothing. You can make something for yourself, or gifts, you can make things to donate to your local church or hospital; bags, scarfs, sweaters, mittens, hats, baby clothes. Only downside is it’s expensive but you can get a shitload of needles for cheap on Amazon if you have to and there’s crappy yarn for a couple bucks at Walmart. If you have money you can get hand dyed and spun yarn from local sellers and then you’re helping small businesses! You’ll suck at first tho lol so maybe don’t go straight to the Good Stuff. Scarves don’t have to be a natural quality fiber they’ve just got to be soft (I need to wear natural fibers since I sweat but if that’s not an issue for you even better)
Idk I feel like not a lot of stuff in my life, so maybe other ppl can relate, feels tangible or like I’m actually having any good impact on the world around me and this for me is one of the only things that fulfills that need. I imagine gardening is more of the same. Idk just try not to let yourself rot which is easier said than done obv but find your thing. I can’t physically go to town hall meetings, I can’t go to protests or join a group, all these things were being urged to do. And like, if you can that’s amazing, but not everyone can get I involved like that for one reason or another. I can hardly walk most days and sometimes I lose the ability to read above a very low level. So I found my thing that helps. Don’t let all the doomer stuff convince you there’s no point and that if you can’t do everything that you should/want to that you can’t make a difference. Sometimes the person you need to be helping is yourself even if that’s a hard pill to swallow.
I feel like I mostly see stuff online about the fight. Doing your part to fight the fascists and all that but like sometimes fighting is being happy or feeling like you matter or doing something that’s honestly selfish in nature but still helps someone. Who cares if the reason you’re donating preemie hats is because you want to feel useful? They still get the hats and maybe you don’t feel like a sack of shit for a couple days. I know I’ve seen this type of thing around but never enough so like let me toss it into the void of the internet in the hopes one other spoonie sees it (or anyone else) and gets comfort that someone else in the same shit spot gets it. I know it helps me when I find stuff like this
