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I have no idea why I never post in this thread. Greetings comrades. Hugo Chavez was mentioned in the news today so I must post my favorite image of him.
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Has anyone else been extremely burnt out, stressed, and depressed lately? I feel like I’m falling behind and I don’t know who to turn to. I can’t take breaks or vacations. I’m very tired.
I wish there was more I could do for myself, my community and my health. I’m just very tired.
Basic necessities cost way too fucking much, let alone small luxuries. And your society is gaslighting you into thinking that the genocide you're watching is actually totally cool and super normal. So get back to work, keep buying things, and stream some more pop culture
garbagecontent.It'd be crazy if you weren't feeling burnt out and dysregulated.
The news is horrific, conditions are rapidly deteriorating, the amount of homeless people I see everyday increases each time I commute to class, more stores are closing, the climate (especially in my area) has been royally fucked, etc.
On top of that, I’ve devoted fully to the student’s life, and I am regularly pulling 90-100 hour weeks between classes, lectures, projects, assignments, exams, studying, and working to stay alive. Everything is online, everyone wants to reach you every single hour of the day. I force myself to sleep 8 hours a day, so the little time I have to myself is for the bathroom, eating scraps, and chores.
I don’t have time to eat, let alone the money to do so. I just forget the eat many days, and I’ve lost a lot of weight. Don’t spend time with anyone except my partner whenever I get the chance, and if it wasn’t for them and my local party I feel like I would have snapped by now.
I don’t have the energy to do anything, and I’m still falling behind. I don’t even have the time anymore to volunteer with my party anymore, or attend any meetings. I feel like I’m failing the cause. Ironically the thing I’m studying is probably the best thing a communist could be, so I hope my work can bring meaningful change, but it seems like a cope.
Sorry if this was very venty. Things haven’t been good over here.
All good comrade. Burnout is real. Be kind to yourself. More and more people join the movement every day, so don't feel guilty for taking breaks where you can. Your health is important and someone will eventually be there to fill in the gaps.
Thank you for the laugh friend : ) I’ll keep your offer in mind lol
I guess it’s only fair for me to offer the same thing back, I can eat you if things get too stressful!
I feel the same sometimes, with everything shitty that life can throw your way. The way I see it, a lot of the time there is not much that I can really do about these things apart from occasionally finding time to distract myself with things I care about. Although it's less and less often these days.
Yup 😎 just work and when I get back from work I don't have the energy to do something so I watch brain dead television instead. It has gotten to the point that I was anxious before my workout yesterday, even though I usually love working out.
I'm currently in a 'what's the point?' period in my life. I'm not suicidal but I do wonder what more there is to life than work for the vast majority of the time with little to no positive developments when it comes to housing, climate, right wing extremisme etc. Like, why am I making this much effort for this messed up system? Why not just start living my life in a more meaningful way?
Sorry to hear that. I get like that sometimes, too. That's when I post the most because I don't have energy for much else. That feeling would be fairly constant at the moment, given the state of the world, Palestine in particular, if I e.g. read the papers or watched the news. I mostly stopped looking, for that reason. It's okay to switch off from some things to gather your strength.
Try to take it easy sometimes if you can. Your studies are important and you want to do well, but you won't be able to keep it all up if you end up too burned out. Is there a more efficient way of studying? There might not be, but it's worth thinking about, just in case.
I used to lurk on the Marxist subreddits for theory discussions as I was feeling my way through the classics. There were always to many reactionaries and bad faith arguments for me to get involved other than reading. Then I saw a link to here and I've been lurking since the beginning. I made an account when I was confident enough with my Marxism to join in.
I've got basically the same story, except I disovered lemmygrad later on.
I came here though r/thedeprogram there was a link to this site that was pinned for a time just in case reddit did what it did to r/genzedong to r/thedeprogram. And when reddit terminated my account I came here.
Discovered Lemmy through looking at the Fediverse wikipedia page and just came across a Lemmygrad post(er) and thought the name was based. By then I had been in a radlib discord server but I knew something was off because they were very pro-ukraine (I'd watched the Boy Boy video about it and felt pretty convinced) and were skeptical of JT, calling him a tankie. Everything in my worldview was vibes-based. I stuck around and lurked this place and Hexbear for like 8 months until I made an account.
Basically everything about communism I know I came to know thanks to the users here and in Hexbear, so I'm eternally grateful for y'all 🫡
I joined hexbear when it was still called chapo.chat but stopped using it. Saw a link to lemmygrad on r/genzedong browsed it occasionally but only made an account once the sub got quarantine
My disillusionment in Mormonism and subsequent embrace of atheism is what set me on the path that led me here.
I was aware of it for a while- either from (probably) GenZedong or the deprogram.
Got an interview with a job on Malta. Lowest possible pay is too low to accept, but if they offered the highest one, it may be an option (a financial blow still tbh). The rents are higher, but there's SO MUCH MORE housing than in Ireland and the quality is also much higher. I'd probably get super skinny from the lack of convinience vegan meals (or at least it's implied it's not very available through an online search).
The recruiter referred to people like me as expats. I hate the term. I don't consider myself having a native country. I am culturally and ancestrally mixed. I am always seen as non native wherever I go. I am an immigrant, not an expat.
Congratulations on getting an offer, I hope you can get the high end... and find vegan meals...
I still have the first interview to go through. One one hand I wouldn't see my Irish friends, but now that I know many of them are likely to get deported, while I'd be jobless and homeless... Fuck, I wish I just found a place where I can stay-stay. ._.
Marvellous how some rays of sun can change your mood. Have a nice week, comrades.
Definitely because this one time I told you to send a capybara video to graineater to I awarded you with a medal of Oppo 🏅 and a dog video and might also have been pissing
I realized why turning off notifications works for some people and not me for reducing tech use. At one time I got many discord notifications, on another Instagram. Now all the notifications I get (on the off screen of my phone) are texts that I often don’t feel like responding to. Meanwhile I’m in the habit of constantly checking things like Lemmygrad because someone just might have replied to me. Lack of notifications don’t deter me because I’m used to opening my phone and refreshing. Suppose I should re-declutter.
omg same 😭😭😭😭 I just try to distract myself with writing fanfics or drawing stuff instead of social media.
I just want to read actual books, but I’m far more drawn to this unfortunately. It requires less focus.
That sentence might as well describe me lol
The worst part is that the only books I have are PDFs so I only read on my phone. Thankfully I don't have many distractions, just the Lemmy app
Can you see the text of PDFs ok on your phone? I'd love to read them on mine but the text is usually too small for me.
I dunno, I made myself used to it tbh. It's the only portable reader I have. Before reading books I read mangas and it was a real pain, still I had read a lot.
Ain't gonna be quick. The yankee spook apparatus likes them too much
Where is this? you can't post these pictures without a location. my curiosity is killing me
The aussie boys have proves that doing covert espionage is kind of easy lmao.
