Last night I had a total melt down about this week. I’m cautions about how I take in news, I avoid doom scrolling, and am a practiced activist. I stay engaged. Yet I still fell apart. I know these moments will happen. You can not stay plugged in to the BS all the time. ⬇️ - ThreadSky

ericavogel.bsky.social • 30 days ago

Last night I had a total melt down about this week.

I’m cautions about how I take in news, I avoid doom scrolling, and am a practiced activist. I stay engaged.

Yet I still fell apart. I know these moments will happen.

You can not stay plugged in to the BS all the time.
⬇️

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madamezai.bsky.social•30 days ago

This was me yesterday too! I had been doing so well too but I just couldn't hold it in any longer. Hugs to you 💜

ericavogel.bsky.social•30 days ago

Thank you. Yep changing my whole plan to include daily breaks, moments of joy like dancing, so that I can regulate how I’m feeling about each thing that comes up. Like today we went to the Lego exhibit in DC and it was amazing and recharged me.

madamezai.bsky.social•29 days ago

That sounds like an amazing time!! I've been getting back into drawing and making art and it's been life saving for my mental health.

v4vulture.bsky.social•29 days ago

I have been trying to keep it together. But...I did unfortunately find myself crying in the grocery store today. I walked past the lobsters in their tank. I always find it disturbing, but today I couldn't push it down-there was too much else already there. So I cried at the grocery store a little.

ericavogel.bsky.social•29 days ago

It happens. But we gotta make time to get through it so that we can get to it.

techychik.bsky.social•30 days ago

Ya have to care for yourself FIRST

meaningfulsalt.bsky.social•30 days ago

Tried to engage my brothers who are white and monied.They believe they are insulated. They voted for Harris grudgingly. When I reminded one his wife, a naturalized citizen from Korea loses protection if the 14th amendment disappears, threw Valium at me.

Rest. Read state constitution. Share later.

anneebeegee.bsky.social•29 days ago

I can relate 💯.
Sending you love and strength!

ericavogel.bsky.social•30 days ago

You must step away regularly. Make a plan for these moments and be ready to utilize it by giving yourself actions to take that help you rest & reset

We cannot fight back if we are drowning in depression.

wisdomtogive.bsky.social•30 days ago

I sooooo understand. It's mentally draining

clairfraser.bsky.social•29 days ago

Trying to cut back but am honestly terrified. Elon Musk and his people in OPM and Treasury. 😬🤬

krpdiver.bsky.social•30 days ago

I had that moment last Tuesday. I’m sure another will come along. Now is not the time to ostrich, more like time to hit the streets!

meaningfulsalt.bsky.social•30 days ago

Or ostrich a little then march. Titration. Read state constitution to see what protections are when fed fails. Ostrich. March. Write a new constitution. Ostrich. March. Maybe just amendments will suffice.

mrsg-resists.bsky.social•29 days ago

Thay was me today. Lost it.

Tomorrow is another day. We get up and fight.

Hugs 🫂

begtodiffer.bsky.social•30 days ago

I had one here this morning. I disconnected and rearranged furniture, deep dusted, minimalized a bit and poop scooped the backyard. Manic? Anxiety overload? I’m not sure anymore

ericavogel.bsky.social•30 days ago

This is the way

xrefugee23.bsky.social•29 days ago

Omg is this why I finally, after months of telling myself to do it, I cleaned and organized my freezer and deep freezer? I was on a ROLL today. It distracted me from this.

xrefugee23.bsky.social•29 days ago

Been crying since yesterday. This is so hard. And as a Canadian so damn unfair. What did we do to you? The betrayal hits hard. And it’s terrifying. I’m worried for me and my family.

ashleysiegs.bsky.social•30 days ago

This resonates so much and I’ve had a few moments myself, friend. I keep reminding myself each week it’ll get a little easier to regulate this new/old normal. Sending love 💛

ericavogel.bsky.social•30 days ago

Thank you Friend. The shock will listen and we’ll become more and more organized.

kriskingphoto.bsky.social•30 days ago

Mine was Thursday. I lost it! I’m sick too so there’s that.

ericavogel.bsky.social•29 days ago

I was sick last weekend.

kriskingphoto.bsky.social•29 days ago

Hope you’re feeling better now. I’m old, so on two weeks in bed and counting.

ironysghost.bsky.social•29 days ago

Erica - you are not alone - there are many of us who feel the same way - take the news in small doses without audio/video [ya-trump's mumbles sets me off] and take a "holiday" from social media - hang in - these assholes will fuck themselves to death ---

bluedotty.bsky.social•29 days ago

Decided to read Grapes of Wrath last night to help get my mind off everything, but still keep things in perspective. It's exhausting to stay engaged. Hugs.

tamills65.bsky.social•29 days ago

Yesterday afternoon for me while at the dog park. We 💯 have to take a break from the news, doom scrolling and related. I do find solace in nature so having quiet time with my pups helps most times and having next to no cell signal at the park helps too. And love listening to the birds.

anonmrbear.bsky.social•30 days ago

Navigating mental health during this is hard. Unfortunately, the pandemic gave me some good skills on understanding what I can control and processing what I can’t. Engagement is taking control on a level. Thanks for speaking this friend.

ericavogel.bsky.social•30 days ago

Yes caring for mental health must be a regular practice as we get to work. The pandemic also taught me a lot about that. It’s time for every one to dust off this skills.

anonmrbear.bsky.social•30 days ago

It is sad fact that we have this in our ‘life’ toolbox. Thanks Trump.

realnortherngirl.bsky.social•29 days ago

It’s so hard. I had a meltdown too, worried so much about my kids future here. I’m so tired. I need to step away but when I come back it’s always worse.

fizzbin88.bsky.social•29 days ago

Me, as well... don't really want to hear what's going on, but I have a need to stay informed!

mommabean.bsky.social•30 days ago

I’ve broken down many times. I think it’s getting easier, but I’m sure I’ll break down again.💯

nik4democracy.bsky.social•30 days ago

I needed to read that. I’m auDHD and have a strong response to injustice and this is just so hard to go through.

ericavogel.bsky.social•30 days ago

It is, it truly is. We must bear it though, and doing that requires taking care of ourselves.

nik4democracy.bsky.social•30 days ago

I’m trying. My mental health struggles are also drug resistant but vagus nerve exercises, yoga, meditation aren’t helping.

ericavogel.bsky.social•30 days ago

Those should hopefully help

thegiez.bsky.social•29 days ago

Live your life off-line. Trump is overplaying his hand, and while the short-term will be chaotic and uncomfortable, it is unsustainable. Goodness will prevail, though the road will be rocky. Chin up!

stevieprinz.bsky.social•30 days ago

Agree! Make a plan in the calm then go find joy where you can. First hand experience speaking.

jacqueblue.bsky.social•30 days ago

I have gone down to once a day on BS on avg. Sometimes I skip a day, some days twice. Unsubscribed from several YouTube accts. It's hard though bcuz last time I went a day b4 election, there was an alleged assassination attempt & I had no idea. Easier now, they just are keeping info from us.

ryannrivera4.bsky.social•29 days ago

I feel you my husband is tired of listening to me have a mental moment every time something new happens

vote-see2024.bsky.social•29 days ago

Music helps me unplug when it gets to be too much.

jstshwup.bsky.social•30 days ago

I've had a few. So now I force myself to step away not look away. I've long been a voracious consumer of news..things from every angle but there's no good angle right now. I went for 3-4 podcasts a day to maybe 1. 4-5 substacks a day to 1. Doomscrolling all day to 2 hours a day (and i need to cut)

ericavogel.bsky.social•30 days ago

This is exactly what I’m talking about.

paulatilbrook.bsky.social•29 days ago

I live in Australia and I had to take a day off from the news last week. This fire hose of awful just overwhelms you 😊💙

janlillemo.bsky.social•29 days ago

Been there. Expect to be there again. Hang in there.

hunnybun100.bsky.social•30 days ago

This is thuggery. They want to overwhelm. It’s ok to practice self care and then act strategically. How will you protect yourself? Then what steps to fight back?

nancylcoleman.bsky.social•30 days ago

amandie24.bsky.social•30 days ago

Did you read Ezra Klein OpEd “Don’t Believe Him” today? (If behind a paywall you can listen to the podcast on both Apple/Spotify) It grounded me. 💜

ericavogel.bsky.social•30 days ago

No I did not. But l look it up.

kandyminnesota.bsky.social•29 days ago

"Trump’s political capital is thin. Both in his first and second terms, he has entered office with approval ratings below that of any president in the modern era. Gallup has Trump’s approval rating at 47 percent — about 10 points beneath Joe Biden’s in January 2021."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-trump-column-read.html

jackjrswisher.bsky.social•29 days ago

I seem like I’m composed but in truth I’m screaming on the inside.

Although these days the facade is breaking apart and I’m lashing out. In my defense they deserve it; people who laugh at suffering, especially directed at my loved ones, will incur such a fate.

aeirould.bsky.social•29 days ago

Even when we were, as Dan Savage said, burying our friends in the morning and hitting the streets in the afternoon, we learned that one.

gigimac.bsky.social•30 days ago

I’m back on anxiety medication, I was off them for a few years.

ericavogel.bsky.social•30 days ago

You gotta do what you gotta do.

gigimac.bsky.social•30 days ago

I have ADHD, PTSD and anxiety on a normal day and we have passed normal and speeding wildly into the unknown. I figured it was going to be bad so I prepared myself psychologically as much as possible but it’s really bad.

ericavogel.bsky.social•30 days ago

That is very good thinking. These period of time will test us all, and taking action to look out for yourself is never wrong.

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