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This is free advice from a medium expensive counselor who mostly works on insurance reimbursement:
Most modern pop psychology is finding a way to repackage “try not to think about it” into more palatable terms because a great deal of “mental illness” is directly attributable to systemic issues that have no end in sight
"Doc, I feel like I'm always being watched and the world is hurdling towards ruin"
1976: you're paranoid and crazy
2026: sometimes being well-informed can be mentally taxing and you need to take a break
I think the post is great advice not communicated clearly.
Don't try making yourself believe important things are unimportant, practice.
Apply for a job you don't want or need. Get documents when you're already qualified for a fast track and could skip at any time. Do the long procedure just to see if it was possible had the other ways not worked out.
Have something changed that really doesn't matter.
This is calling for bureaucracy training.
I'm not a therapist but I've certainly visted more than my share.
"try not to think about it" is pretty much the antithesis of modern therapy.
this part is true.
Broadly there are several potential solutions:
Firstly, changing the way that we think about events. If my company is insolvent would that mean I'm a bad business person or would it mean the economy is a mess. This is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - changing the behavior of our thought processes.
Secondly, accepting that things might go wrong and not being paralysed by that fear. My company might become insolvent, it wouldn't be the end of the world if it did, I'm going to take action to mitigate that problem. This is Acceptance Commitment Therapy - accepting the risk of bad things and committing to some kind of action.
Thirdly, living in the moment, observing thoughts both positive and negative coming and going. This is mindfulness.
In summary, anxiety or worry is a healthy and normal part of human existence. We're hard wired to avoid threats and we do that by foreseeing risks and planning around them. Trying not to worry is how the healthy and normal experience becomes debilitating.
I'm sure a real therapist will be along any moment to tell me all about how wrong my summary is. I'm ok with that.
Some would disagree, just ask scientists how long the current trajectory can remain.
It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
Yes, because science can be used to show measurable ways the world is actively ending right now.
It's more that capitalism is causing "the end of the world". Between now and the total deaths of all life on earth, I remain hopeful that there will be some positive systematic change before it gets too far.
My moneys on us getting revenge during the death rattle.
The US is normal is now as old as ((the average lifespan of a civilization))
We can hope, and make our moves for something better
That was probably true about the divine right of kings, hundreds of years ago. Things change
It changed because private citizens were able to join together and accumulate enough wealth to match the private treasuries of a local monarch and fund private armies to act as revolutionary elements that threatened their local monarch with overwhelmingly disproportionate strength and forced them to capitulate.
I think the advice is true for things you can not realistically change. But finding out if you can't change it or why something is bothering you is key here.
For me existential dread was a sign of my body to take the next step and start a family.
But absolutely nothing in the screenshot is attributable to systemic issues that have no end in sight 🤔 Anxiety around the things he listed can literally be cured through just doing them, aka exposure
A job interview that determines if you will have food this week is a systemic issue
I'm sure the end of most of these issues is in sight through the right scope!