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[-] lavander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

My coping mechanism: when I feel that I am going to be overwhelmed by bad news or the cruelty for the sake of it.

  1. Is this something I can influence in a way or another? The answer is typically no (otherwise I would have already worked on addressing)
  2. Spending emotional energies on this would change anything for this instance? The answer is always no
  3. If I keep on wasting emotional energies on this topic that I can’t change, will I have the energies for having an impact on things I can have an impact on?

This makes me realise that the best I can do for the system is, sadly, ignore the problem. Not because I don’t care but for a strategic effort in doing what I can

[-] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

I know plenty of people who use that logic to avoid feeling emotions about the state of the world, but then they never do anything to actually help the state of the world. Not saying this is you, it’s just a discouraging trend and I think that actually the people who get most upset about things they cannot change are often the only ones who end up making an effort to change them.

[-] lavander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 13 hours ago

If there is something that can be done, well then it means that I have some control.

If all I can do is burn myself out… it would not make the world better

this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2026
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