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My days are perfectly fine, actually. In my country in this season, the sun sets early that it is already dark outside at 5pm. This means that it is dark when I wake up and dark when I go home from work. A lot of people get seasonal depression because of this, which is very understandable, but I've always found it incredibly soothing and romantic for some reason. It fucks with my brain in the mornings though because if I wake up a little earlier than the alarm, I always tend to believe it is the middle of the night rather than early morning. My job is also incredibly fun. The pay is in no ways good, but I work for one of my country's largest environmentalist organizations for youth. I know D&D has a habit of going into a spiral of depression and anxiety regarding the future of this planet, and I am in no way better. It is easy to fall into it when you know the consequences of climate change after all. However, working with these youth who have become so incredibly empowered lately to fight for climate justice and fight against climate change is incredibly inspiring. It fills me with happiness knowing that so many of our future leaders and politicians will fight so hard for our future. We've grown a lot just this year alone, and from what we can see of our network of other environmentalist youth organizations, so have they. I remember reading in this thread that the best way to fight this spiral of depression regarding climate change is to get engaged with the fight. And I certainly recommend you to do it in any way possible. Hanging out with sadsacks and doomsayers will only further perpetuate the cycle of anxiety and depression. Getting to know people, establish connections and join the fight will make you realize there is hope after all, no matter how bleak it may seem 
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rkajdi posted:Thank you so much man. I am just about ready to call a crisis helpline after work for the second time in a week. Both were brought on by reading the climate change thread. Yes, I know I shouldn't as a mental health thing alone (it was broken out from standard USPOL because of how much it breaks some people, right?) but I was trying the "confront your fears" thing. Guess what, it doesn't work. I already have a mental health appointment, but it's not for a week, and it was the first one I could get into. I'm constantly careening between some of elation/hope and awful, nothing matters depression and have been for about a week now. I am so lucky that I was able to get an appointment this fast-- it only took breaking down on the phone and someone actually feeling sorry enough to me to help. I don't understand and honestly envy the people who are capable of wading into the issue and not have it ruin their entire life. Hey man, I'm just happy to help. Confront your fears, but also know how to handle them. The environmentalist movement has grown significantly, and much of it has to do with the rise of organizations such as Extinction Rebellion, Greta Tunberg and simply because of youth that have grown real loving tired of our politicians and governments doing nothing. In my country, Norway, we organized a climate strike back in March. We expected perhaps up to a thousand attendees in the capital and a few houndreds / thousands scattered around in towns and cities across the country. We had approximately 25.000 youth and about 40-50.000 youth all across Norway on that single day in March. I remember walking from the office and making my way down to the parliament where they had staged the climate strike in Oslo, and seeing that ocean of youth standing in front of the parliament. It was one of the most awesome sights I had ever seen. And it is those things one should focus on and participate in. Those are the things that gives you hope for the future; knowing that someone actually gives a drat. No one gains anything from doom and gloom. You, the peoples around you and society gains from activism and political participance in whatever capacity one is able to give. Environmentalist activism in Norway has reached the point where even the state owned oil company Equinor is desperately trying to regain favor by spending millions upon millions on advertisements talking about how they are the biggest promoter of green and sustainable growth; all because thousands of kids stood up against them and continues to stand up against them. And this is not only in Norway. We have seen climate strikes and marches everywhere all across the world. Youth are suing their states, their federal governments all across the planet. Participation in environmentalist organizations has grown significantly lately. We are realizing that this is the most pressing issue of this century Sorry to hijack the thread like this, but I am tired of the doom and gloom in D&D. Get involved and do something, y'all. It feels good. You don't have to be a keynote speaker, you don't need to be the person that stands in front of the marches; as long as you're willing to send a few e-mails, hang up a few posters, hand out a few flyers, help organize a small meeting, you're doing your part. And that is what is most important.
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