I made this comment in another thread but I want more of your eyeballs on it, maybe somebody has something useful to say.
I have some serious anxiety about the fact that modern civilization is all of us in a bus driving towards a cliff, with the driver’s foot firmly on the accelerator pedal. Therapy is available to me, but what the fuck are they gonna say? Tune out?
Really feel this with the person I'm working with who has dementia. Forces me to refrain from the novice "problem-solving, advice-giving" tendencies and practice a more here-and-now approach.