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How do you not get defeated and depressed by everything that’s happening in this country. How is it even possible to keep up the will to fight

Anonymous 7w

Listen to music, watch a show, take a bath. Disconnect from the world for a bit. Take a break

Anonymous 7w

engage in your (local) community, it's the only thing that will save you. join your local dsa faction, see if there's queer events in your area, go to protests and actually talk to people. depression hates a moving target and being active in organizing is the only way to fight of nihilism. revolutionary optimism WILL save your life.

Anonymous 7w

I know this isn’t specifically pertaining to transness, but I didn’t know where else to post where I wouldn’t end up in an argument with right wingers and where I could maybe get some genuine advice. I know the goal of all of this horrible shit storm is to demoralize those that might put up a fight and I hate so fucking dearly that it’s working on me

Anonymous 7w

i've started working on what i can control (personal life & a bit of local politics). i don't think every member of every minority is obligated to be an activist, but the more the better for changing the nation.

Anonymous 7w

go find the things they're not winning at. they overload everything with so much bad, and the good never gets told. half the things they claim they'll do or they'll try to do get shot down, but you never find out because they move on to trying to do something else. they want you overwhelmed and tired, they want this tactic to work

Anonymous 7w

When you’re at this stage, it is necessary to completely unplug from the news for a time. You can’t fight when your nervous system is going haywire. We need you to take care of yourself, and connect with people locally who are on the same wavelength as you. Find ways to help each other and pool your resources so the system can’t squeeze you as hard. Contribute your strengths and rely on others to help with your weaknesses. It takes time and effort to build this kind of relationship but its worth

Anonymous 7w

spite

Anonymous 6w

i get engaged locally. i can't change the world, but i can help weed at the native gardens and volunteer at our farmers market and pick up trash when i see it. it's not perfect, but it's something.

Anonymous 7w

Alcohol….

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Anonymous

#1 7w

I know their goal is to overwhelm and demoralize, but that knowledge only helped a bit initially. Since then I think my predisposition to fatigue and depression left me especially vulnerable to this sort of tactic. I’ll try to look for the good though, thank you

Anonymous

#4 7w

The only way ive been able to keep going is by relying on the things I enjoy to remind me that theres still some good things left. Complety cut out doomscrolling and go on walks. Enjoy nature. It sounds stupid but as someone w/ mdd it seriously helps

Anonymous

#4 7w

Youre an empathetic person. We'll need u in the fight, but the only way youll be able to be there for it is if u stay alive. Theres no obligation for u to harm urself by watching the news constantly. U know shits bad, u dont need the gory details

Anonymous

#4 5w

Thank you, I think I needed permission from someone to disconnect from the world a bit. I know knowledge is power and ignorance is one of the ways oppression can continue to go unchecked, but that knowledge never helped when hearing the news genuinely started triggering suicidal thoughts after those thoughts had previously calmed a bit. I think I need time to figure myself out more, become more whole, continue with my transition, and then I think I’ll be fortified enough to fight. In the-

Anonymous

OP 5w

-meantime, I’m an artist who’s been using his art to try and work out a few gender and emotional things, so I’ll keep making that and putting it out into the world to continue contributing one more trans voice, albeit small

Anonymous

#3 5w

Currently I’m working on feeling comfortable driving alone and my town isn’t walkable, so I can’t go to basically any community events atm. As I said though, I’m working on driving and am making decent progress, so I imagine I’ll be able to in a month or so. Thank you for the input!

Anonymous

#7 5w

Yeah, I think I’m realizing that for me that I need to be ok with not doing everything possible to fight all the time. I’ve had a recent autism diagnosis and am finding that the black and white thinking from that’s impacted way more than I thought lol, like I have to be a 24/7 activist or do nothing, I have to do my full morning and nighttime routine or nothing, I have to work all day or do nothing, etc. I mentioned in my reply to 4 that I’m an artist, so I’ll let voting and putting my art out-

Anonymous

OP 5w

-into the world be my baseline for the moment in regards to political action

Anonymous

#6 5w

Atm I don’t have much I can offer others, but I’m working on it very actively. Currently that’s getting comfortable driving so I can at least have a normal amount of mobility and I can get a job and get involved in community work. Thank you for the advice❤️

Anonymous

#5 5w

Thank you for the advice, but unfortunately spite doesn’t work for me personally. I’ve found what works better, at least in keeping myself alive, is that every trans person still here is one more person standing in the way of the right’s goal to end us, along with being one more person to stand with other trans people

Anonymous

#8 5w

Thank you for the input. I’ve been considering, after I get comfortable driving, maybe volunteering at a shelter or something, though I’ll work out the specifics once I get to that point