I’m doing a lot of these too! Bluesky and Substack only now. Helping my family wean themselves off Amazon by sending me links to what they want and at least giving me a chance to find it elsewhere. We live in Richmond so finding black/LGBT owned businesses should be easier than in many other places
I'm a political science fiction world builder. Which is a fancy way of saying I make up fictional governments and write fictional constitutions. It's fun.
Streaming is my kinda therapy when I get people in the chat. Even if I'm not doing good, I gotta do good for my friends watching. I gotta fake it till I make it lol
At some point I forget I'm struggling and just get in the zone... Until I hop off camera and crash
I started randomly playing Far Cry 5 as was too lazy to put the disc in for 4. Talk about panic inducing as it is a little too on the nose at the moment.
Avoiding online as much as possible. I peek at things with coffee just to stay current and then log off because it's all to much AND mostly horrible! 💚
you do what you can. I just did an RP with a friend for an hour, just as an escape. It was good catharsis 'cause I could vent my frustration by creating a fantasy world that reflects my issues and create a solution within that fantasy. it's not much but it feels good, it's also really fun.
I question if being sane is even the right way to go anymore. Its being sane that makes me aware of the insanity going on around me. Video games and reading help, if only a little. Time with friends and doing good for others helps a lot.
drawing/painting and writing, i'm too introverted to manage socializing when stressed but art works for me. also was nice of my therapist to say any art we make while the system tries to crush us is automatically protest art ^.^
well i mean im professionally mad, that's why i get ssdi/va disability, but i started spanish classes again yesterday to help me get along in the country im living in now. i had fun and it helped.
and before anybody says "but you're not living in the us now", i'm in panama which is on shitler's short list of potential war zones, and both of my pensions are in direct danger. they go away? i die of starvation.
Creating alternate realities in my brainmeats, lots of metal music, the occasional primal scream in my apartment complex, help keep everyone on their toes.
Mostly though... gallows humour, stubbornness and spite.
Getting out in nature as much as possible. Research shows just doing that can lower blood pressure and keep us healthier. I throw in a bit of birding and photography, which really take me away from the madding crowd.🐦
Reading and playing BG3 when I feel the panic and need to disconnect. Staying informed as much as I sanely can. Focusing on changing and controlling the things I can (if anyone in the Vancouver area knows someone hiring an ecologist hmu)
Got a ChipDrop this week, so moving woodchips and logs around. Surprisingly satisfying. It's a great time of year to get a ChipDrop, btw, if you need one.
Therapy. Shrinking my world as far as how I find joy. Looking out my window and the birds. Buying yarn & knitting with a comfy blanket & tea. Walks. Treasuring loved ones. And resisting in ways I can. Money to a friend who needs it. Offer of shelter to another who's affected. Etc.
Taking walks with my dog, playing with my cat, eating all the ice cream I want, watching twin peaks with my teenage kid and my wife, having a bagel with lox, doing as much work while the funding still exists so people can get needed supplies, watching the snow fall, gay sex.
I don't know how well it's working, mind, but I bought a modular character sheet set + expansion bits off of Spoonflower + Ink, and have been occupying myself with Arts & Crafts time by cutting out the pieces. Once I have everything cut, I'll color them and put them into a blank notebook.
Drawing, and trying to remind myself that abusers launching attacks nonstop, enough that I stop being able to think of a future, a past or good things now, is EXACTLY what I am weak to. They are exploiting my CPTSD, but the world’s bigger than it, or them.
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Streaming is my kinda therapy when I get people in the chat. Even if I'm not doing good, I gotta do good for my friends watching. I gotta fake it till I make it lol
At some point I forget I'm struggling and just get in the zone... Until I hop off camera and crash
I’m trying stay sober!
Reading
Cooking
Sleeping
Cleaning
Playing game
Snark people online but only if they're obviously in the wrong
Mostly though... gallows humour, stubbornness and spite.
Moral inventory.
Admit wrongs.
Become willing to change.
List all things harmed.
Become willing to make amends.
Make amends.
Repeat.