It’s been a long time since I’ve felt this low. I can’t keep the world out of my head. There’s so much happening and so little I can do about it. Crying ain’t enough.
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It's a constant state of stress. More than the usual pressure of walking in the world as a black woman. Take some time to care for yourself and disengage.
punk rock 4 ever. use that anger and sadness productively. I cry. I wallow. But not for too long. We have to dig out of this. No choice. We will all start to get energized in the fight. This isn't forever.
Know that you are not alone! Spring is here and the time for flipping tables is coming! Take a break, even just a few days from the media. It does wonders. Cultivate a little positivity, self care, then get back in the fight. Evil will not prevail!
Me too. Every day I have to force my mind away from it just to get through. It's rough. But we have each other and we have numbers when push comes to shove.
I feel you. I am teetering between rage and utter sorrow on a daily basis and it's taking its toll. And so many people are still oblivious to it all, which only adds to my overwhelming distress.
Right? I'm coming into work every day working among people who are supporting this madness. I'm trying to go through the motions while horrors play in my head.
I've felt like this for years.
Let things rot. The people responsible for supporting the chaos will receive their Karma and consequence. It's not our responsibility to carry 1,000 pounds when our neighbor can't be bothered to carry 1.
Individually we are only one and can be overwhelmed by all that is happening. But together, we are a force. We are a movement. We can’t change things without each other.
Thanks for sharing and giving everyone here a chance to commiserate. These are dark times indeed - but as you can tell by the responses, you are not alone.
I feel this in the depths of my soul. I want to help everyone and yet there’s only so much I can do as one person. There is definitely a heaviness on the world right now, and many of us are feeling it all at once. 🫂💙😞
I think the simple things are important in stressed times. As long as we’re alive, they can’t take them from us. Doing dishes, listen to calming music.
It is really, truly helpful to know that even brilliant women like yourselves feel this way. I work in higher ed admin and feel insane going to meetings and discussing the future.
Thank you for sharing this.
I live in DC working in government affairs. We go to work like we are dealing with a normal government and we aren’t. It makes it all feel pointless and overwhelming and scary. My productive is basically 0%.
This is what they want. I volunteer a lot in things that could be affected by those draconian cuts. I put my phone away and focus on the job at hand.
Take deep breaths, go for walks, put your phone down for a few hours.
It really does suck.
Also, Xanax helps.
With you, hear you, and feel with you. Last night, laying in bed, I felt like my heart was literally being ripped apart, for all the men, likely not gang members at all, in the prison in El Salvador, for the young woman kidnapped for writing an op-ed, for all the pain inflicted by my race on others.
I feel this as well. I keep trying to find peace in the things I love, then struggling with the guilt I feel for allowing myself those moments of peace.
Do one good thing every hour. One smile. One thank you. Open one door for someone. Positive eye contact with one person. Listen to one song you enjoy. Read one chapter of a favorite author. Smell one flower. Eat one piece of chocolate. This is how we get through each day. One step at a time. 🩷💜💛
Fake it until you can make it! It really does make a difference, even if it’s just those in your small bubble. We have to stick together and lift one another up. Lean on someone today, so you can lift someone up tomorrow.
Let’s try to be gentle with ourselves and each other, and remember that our news media isn’t really covering all the cool and good things countless regular people are doing to push back.
It definitely is scary and worrisome. I’ve limited my news and watch upbeat shows and work out like a madman. Little things that keep me from spiraling.
I see you and I’m lifting you and @roxanegay.bsky.social up in my version of prayer. If cookies will help, I can send those, too. (We all eat things from random people on the Internet, right? 🤣🤣)
Rest. Recharge. Focus on yourself. Others will carry the load while you get ready to push again when you are able. We all must do this so that collectively we keep moving forward.
thanks. sincerely. so many of us dont blame yall for being pissed and doing whatever u gotta do. we love our 🇨🇦 neighbors. we cant stand our maga ones tho.
beyjnd embarrassing
I am also not doing well, but I can share the things that are holding me together:
*a daily action towards…something. Sometimes it’s calling a politician. Sometimes it’s mutual aid.
*planting my garden
*cat rescue
The things that make me feel slightly ok all make a small part of my world better
My husband is nearing 65 and has been in cancer treatment since last June. He’s still working. Has worked his whole life, including for a time as a firefighter/ paramedic/ police officer. The attacks on Social Security have me absolutely enraged. The only thing keeping me sane is writing my book.
Not sure how close you are to the farm where the little bundles of joy came from, but the other side of the cow is super lovely for hugging. They are often like giant puppies. 😍 Hang in there.
They want us to feel like we can’t do anything. This is how they win. I know it’s hard and tiring; and I know we are tired - but we must grasp on to hope at the very least.
Sending you love & strength. I encourage you to remain grounded & Rest in every way you can, especially your brilliant mind - your most powerful weapon. Battles are being fought 'out there'... they don't change your reasons for existing. When it's time to "bear arms," you'll know. But, not yet.🙏🏾
I totally get this. It's like there's an overlay of darkness blanketing my everyday life, making normal things harder to do. That said, let's strive to be ordinary heroes who find our people and try to lend them our strength. I'm fighting for all of you.
You are not alone. I actually take comfort in the fact that the only way out is together. I remain hopeful. We have the numbers on our side. Big protests across the country 5 Apr.
My son was born with disabilities, my wife is fighting cancer, my sister fights MS, I've lost a parent a year for the last number of years. I mention that for context only. When life is hard, don't look so far down the road. Bring it right back to where you are. shoes off, feet on the ground. breath
I hope you can find some rest and relief until you are filled up again. Take care, and I hope something funny comes along. Would animal pictures help? ❤️❤️❤️
I’m right there with you! WTF has happened to our country? I am so embarrassed, angry , frustrated, confused, scared, and I just don’t understand any of this…
That feeling is overwhelming.
The bad comes on its own.I search for some tiny piece of good and share it.
Sounds trite but right now I'll take what I can get.
🌈 Everything in life is only for now. Let go and trust that this too shall pass. Lessons learnt here will make you even stronger, even more resilient, even more authentic. 🌟
it is an overwhelmingly difficult time for those of us who give a damn about others. personally, i have caught myself dissociating because it all feels too much. i know my brain is doing this to protect, but i need to act, and some days, i am unable.
i see you. 🫂
I am ao sorry things are so shitty. It’s so difficult to keep oneself in the “circle of control” rather that spinning out in the “circle of concern”. Gentle hugs from a stranger.
The relief is in knowing that due to the outcome of the election and the environmental damages to follow, humanity will be going extinct in 300-500 years, rendering all things ever done or to be done meaningless, as there is no afterlife.
The world weariness is a heavy feeling that can make everything feel hopeless. I empathize with you so much. I feel things very deeply and the suffering of others is something that weighs on me in the most painful of ways. But there is hope. The fight is not over, and the victor has not been named.
We can fight back in a multitude of ways, but more importantly, we need to take care of ourselves and others. We are stronger together and there is still so much good in this world. The adversary is a loud attention whore who tries to drown out the light.
The light isn't as loud. It's softer, quieter, but no less powerful. Each one of us carries that light within us and the way we make that light stronger is when we share it with others. Together, that light can drown out the darkness. That means finding our joy in the simple things.
Laughter, love, kindness, and selflessness are the most powerful forces for change. It may seem silly and trite but I have seen it work mighty miracles. When we let the darkness steal our joy, we are giving in and letting them win. Joy is the greatest weapon against evil, and it's contagious.
Be gentle with yourself and spend some time doing the things that remind you of the beauty of being alive. The laugh of a child, a beautiful flower, music that makes you feel, silliness, friendship, the embrace of a lover. All of these things remind us what life is really about and are armor.
And most of all, I have found that whenever life has felt like too much to bear, I have always been able to find my center again by serving others. We all need each other and simple acts of kindness have a way of refocusing our perspective and helping us understand ourselves.
Hang in there friend…take some mental health days and check out for awhile! We will save your spot until you’re ready & tears are cleansing! #UnitedWeStand 🇺🇸💙 tight virtual hugs🫶🏼
You do what you can. Boycott who you can. Protest if you can. Call if you can. If you can't, pray.
It's cumulative, kiddo. It's starting to add up. THEY'RE starting to feel the pressure. 💪♥️🙏💪
Hey, I carry a lot of disdain for what’s going on.
As difficult as it is, step back. No social for the weekend, well nothing but fun social.
Show someone you care. Bring love and compassion to the front even for a few minutes. It will grow and hopefully help balance.
yes. pulling out of it to help others w something is a good distraction, but it’s creeping in everywhere and it’s so overwhelming. keep up the good work.
You aren't alone. Check your local groups in the @generalstrikeus.bsky.social coalition, like @indivisible.org, for little things that have a big impact.
This stuff is so obviously wrong and people are waking up. It sucks that we have to go through this demented sh*t show but there’s no way it lasts if people step up. We have to pull up and push back.
I’ll see you on the streets Saturday April 5th
🚨 NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION 🚨
Find an event near you. Bring a friend. We’re not standing for this!
💥✊🏼🪧🇺🇸💙🦅
I feel the same. Between the video of Rumeysa Ozturk being kidnapped and the video of Kristi Noem puffed up in front of illegally-imprisoned human beings, I experienced such a rage and a funk that won’t go away. I wrote my reps in despair last night but feel hopeless it will go anywhere.
For decades folks in power that supposedly cares about Democracy and the rule of law have let white supremacy fester in this country never really dealing with the threat to democracy and national security they present!!
I 100% feel the same but one thing that helps me is the knowledge that they want us to feel like this. The reason things are happening so fast and so cruelly is to shock us into incapacitation and lack of action. All of this is out of the fascist playbook. Please engage in self-care when you can.
I see you and the crying isn’t nothing. I know the feeling cause I feel like my crying does nothing. But I understand how devastating it is and those tears have come at great cost and pain. I know you need to rest, but just can’t. We need to help. We cry daily for the world. We wish we could do more
but our souls are so heavy and the ache is too much. It makes me freeze and I hate it. Cause I have time, but it feels so wasted cause it feels like ai’m dealing with just me. That should be easy to handle. But really your nervous system has made up its mind on something and is trying to protect you
Or possibly is making us shutdown because the rest is so badly needed. And it has been for years. I just wanna say I love you and I feel how impossible it feels when you’re working against BS programming from our entire lives. We thought we were plenty overwhelmed before this and had no idea it
could get to THIS. And it’s the worst time in our history for our nervous system’s to be like “hey you gotta work on this now” when the world is what the world is. You are worthy of all the rest you need and then some. Know you’re not alone in your pain that you wish you could do so much more.
The universe gives you permission. I don’t know if you need to hear this like I do, but I give you permission to rest, sweet sister. I once asked my therapist to tell me this when she would tell me to rest. I feel like I need it. Lessons the pain of guilt in my heart a bit❤️🩹
It makes me think of the part in Steel Magnolias where they’re at the funeral, M’Lynn is crying and angry and says “I just wanna hit something, I wanna hit it hard!” It feels like that to me.
Be gentle with yourself right now. “It’s important to have compassion for others but not at the expense of having compassion for yourself.” Paul Gilmartin
I don’t have kids of my own but I am often moved by some innate concept that I’ve held for most of my adult life which is that I am committed to behaving as the best example I can for children and younger generations, to the best of my ability.
I mean to say that that you have value and a reason to stay strong even when it doesn’t feel like it, or at least I hope you hold onto something like that too when shit seems so bleak 🫂
Here’s what you have to do: change the story you’re telling yourself. Be thankful that the birds are chirping, that the economy is decent, that you have people who love you. Change the narrative. Live in the now. It really works.
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This other stuff is just noise.
See the real world, and I hope it makes you smile.
Our brains work off frequencies, literally.
Have you ever done an EEG?
I run data ever day to investigate my brain state.
It helps.
And sadly, that is the point.
Let things rot. The people responsible for supporting the chaos will receive their Karma and consequence. It's not our responsibility to carry 1,000 pounds when our neighbor can't be bothered to carry 1.
My cheerfulness is just a facade.
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Thank you for sharing this.
scream one day,
cry the next.
Take deep breaths, go for walks, put your phone down for a few hours.
It really does suck.
Also, Xanax helps.
beyjnd embarrassing
I've kind of fallen into a pomodoro-like rhythm, trying not to fall too far down the well all at once.
Shift focus. Take a breath.
Take care of yourself.
This is a marathon. One foot after the other.
Lots of comments here from people who are right beside you.
*a daily action towards…something. Sometimes it’s calling a politician. Sometimes it’s mutual aid.
*planting my garden
*cat rescue
The things that make me feel slightly ok all make a small part of my world better
I want to amend my tomato grow bag garden; and I found a local farmer who is selling cow manure.
When the idea of acquiring cow crap can make me feel my first bit of joy, it speaks volumes about my mental/emotional state.
no one of us, alone, can turn it around. it's a longer game than any of us would like, but Trump is an old sick man.
The bad comes on its own.I search for some tiny piece of good and share it.
Sounds trite but right now I'll take what I can get.
I rotate between the sadness and the anxiety from feeling like every things on fire...it's hard to breathe.
it is an overwhelmingly difficult time for those of us who give a damn about others. personally, i have caught myself dissociating because it all feels too much. i know my brain is doing this to protect, but i need to act, and some days, i am unable.
i see you. 🫂
Frees one up to seek fun 100% of the time.
We have the power to bring them down.
It's cumulative, kiddo. It's starting to add up. THEY'RE starting to feel the pressure. 💪♥️🙏💪
As difficult as it is, step back. No social for the weekend, well nothing but fun social.
Show someone you care. Bring love and compassion to the front even for a few minutes. It will grow and hopefully help balance.
I find writing therapeutic, too. Just journaling for myself.
Finally, to quote Phineas and Ferb, "Do you need to yell at some cheese? Will that make you feel better?" (Candice nods.)
It's like an acid drip in the background corroding the potential of every day.
Even this crushing, unfixable situation deserves some breathing space.
I’ll see you on the streets Saturday April 5th
🚨 NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION 🚨
Find an event near you. Bring a friend. We’re not standing for this!
💥✊🏼🪧🇺🇸💙🦅
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/
But we can’t let our despair take over our will to fight!
“What? Over? Did you say 'over'? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!”
https://youtu.be/q7vtWB4owdE?si=_j_v9QjoJUDqAG6s
Pray for better days and remember you are unique amongst all of God's creations 🌹💓🌹
We are not alone.
🫂