Do that hard thing you know you need to do, whatever it is. Maybe it’s going to the doctor to talk about your anxiety, maybe it’s arguing with your insurance company about what they’re not doing for you, maybe it’s going to your state DES office and seeing what programs or assistance you qualify for - or maybe talking to your family/friends about getting whatever assistance you need to make whatever life changes you need to make to get enough of a handle on your personal issues.
Your language tells me you have some issues but likely have no formal diagnosis or treatment plan. You’re not good to us if you’re not healthy. Get healthy, take care of yourself, put money, food and medical supplies aside. Get a gun if you can legally own one. (before your diagnosis, that may get in the way. Just go to a gun-show you barely need to do anything.) About two weeks food and water minimum, everyone should have that. If we see civil disruptions you may have a hard time getting to your grocery stores.
Now, let’s say you start to get a handle on your mental health. What can you do as an individual? First thing is stop spending money on luxuries/reframe your lifestyle and what comforts you feel you depend on. We have to start starving the monsters by ending our addiction to comforts like fast food, junk food, new video games, movies and subscription services, doordash, pot and alcohol, new devices like phones. We will never unify enough people to organize a General Strike in the US, but we can start punching the greedy liches in the face by keeping our money out of their hands.
Then, again assuming you can push yourself to do what you need to start getting healthier, you need to expose yourself to people more. You need to socialize. You need to get to know your neighbors, you need to hold a yard-sale as pretense for meeting people, you need to learn how to make small-talk and make people like you. Then you get involved in local events, community shit, county and city meetings, go boo loudly at your local [R] comptroller or congressperson, get to know who in your community would support local regime change, help endorse and push new candidates who actually represent you.
None of this is going to be fast, and it will take a long time, maybe years. Maybe we don’t have that long.
But it’s all we have.
No charismatic progressive leader is going to appear and lead everyone to some glorious tomorrow. Even if they did, we still have to live next to the millions of tuned-out dipshits who think they’re winning.
We HAVE to abandon that fantasy that something is going to happen or someone is going to come, it’s child-like. It’s on you whether you like it or not. We ALL have to get more involved and less afraid, and if we can’t, we have to tackle whatever is keeping us from being involved and less afraid. (Hint: it’s your phone and/or PC.)
Focusing on ones mental health is a good place to start but imma be real I checked out immediately after the “you’re no good to us if you’re not healthy.”
Do that hard thing you know you need to do, whatever it is. Maybe it’s going to the doctor to talk about your anxiety, maybe it’s arguing with your insurance company about what they’re not doing for you, maybe it’s going to your state DES office and seeing what programs or assistance you qualify for - or maybe talking to your family/friends about getting whatever assistance you need to make whatever life changes you need to make to get enough of a handle on your personal issues.
Your language tells me you have some issues but likely have no formal diagnosis or treatment plan. You’re not good to us if you’re not healthy. Get healthy, take care of yourself, put money, food and medical supplies aside. Get a gun if you can legally own one. (before your diagnosis, that may get in the way. Just go to a gun-show you barely need to do anything.) About two weeks food and water minimum, everyone should have that. If we see civil disruptions you may have a hard time getting to your grocery stores.
Now, let’s say you start to get a handle on your mental health. What can you do as an individual? First thing is stop spending money on luxuries/reframe your lifestyle and what comforts you feel you depend on. We have to start starving the monsters by ending our addiction to comforts like fast food, junk food, new video games, movies and subscription services, doordash, pot and alcohol, new devices like phones. We will never unify enough people to organize a General Strike in the US, but we can start punching the greedy liches in the face by keeping our money out of their hands.
Then, again assuming you can push yourself to do what you need to start getting healthier, you need to expose yourself to people more. You need to socialize. You need to get to know your neighbors, you need to hold a yard-sale as pretense for meeting people, you need to learn how to make small-talk and make people like you. Then you get involved in local events, community shit, county and city meetings, go boo loudly at your local [R] comptroller or congressperson, get to know who in your community would support local regime change, help endorse and push new candidates who actually represent you.
None of this is going to be fast, and it will take a long time, maybe years. Maybe we don’t have that long.
But it’s all we have.
No charismatic progressive leader is going to appear and lead everyone to some glorious tomorrow. Even if they did, we still have to live next to the millions of tuned-out dipshits who think they’re winning.
We HAVE to abandon that fantasy that something is going to happen or someone is going to come, it’s child-like. It’s on you whether you like it or not. We ALL have to get more involved and less afraid, and if we can’t, we have to tackle whatever is keeping us from being involved and less afraid. (Hint: it’s your phone and/or PC.)
Focusing on ones mental health is a good place to start but imma be real I checked out immediately after the “you’re no good to us if you’re not healthy.”
That is a fucking wild thing to say to someone .