Your anxiety and guilt will be treated the most effectively by taking irl action. Even stuff that from your current pov isnt completely transformative.
You will feel better amongst real life comrades and you feel especially good doing real life praxis - even little things like doing mutual aid for the homeless or taking part in a brake light repair.
This has only been studied for climate anxiety, but the actual, effective therepeutic treatment you will be recommended by therepists and psychologist is (essentially) solidarity and praxis. The actual treatment for people feeling overwhelmed by climage anxiety is to do stuff about it, even little stuff like recycling and attending protests. It will be the same for you.
Join a local org that does actual praxis in your community. Tendency doesnt matter all that much so long as theyre doing real community work. If there is no org, you will have to start one or join another one as an at-large member and try to find some comrades.
I know this is a late reply but I do really appreciate the advice. As someone unable to drive for medical reasons and living in a rural area with little public transit/safe bike routes, it's hard for me to get out. Even so I've started doing what I can like going back to the soup kitchen with my roommates. Part of me still says it's not enough but doing these little things helps ease my mind at least for a bit. Soon enough when I move somewhere that I can actually fucking get around via bike for more than 2 months of the year I'll be able to take more action in my community. Hopefully then I won't be surrounded by entirely Trumpers and libs either.
Your anxiety and guilt will be treated the most effectively by taking irl action. Even stuff that from your current pov isnt completely transformative.
You will feel better amongst real life comrades and you feel especially good doing real life praxis - even little things like doing mutual aid for the homeless or taking part in a brake light repair.
This has only been studied for climate anxiety, but the actual, effective therepeutic treatment you will be recommended by therepists and psychologist is (essentially) solidarity and praxis. The actual treatment for people feeling overwhelmed by climage anxiety is to do stuff about it, even little stuff like recycling and attending protests. It will be the same for you.
Join a local org that does actual praxis in your community. Tendency doesnt matter all that much so long as theyre doing real community work. If there is no org, you will have to start one or join another one as an at-large member and try to find some comrades.
I know this is a late reply but I do really appreciate the advice. As someone unable to drive for medical reasons and living in a rural area with little public transit/safe bike routes, it's hard for me to get out. Even so I've started doing what I can like going back to the soup kitchen with my roommates. Part of me still says it's not enough but doing these little things helps ease my mind at least for a bit. Soon enough when I move somewhere that I can actually fucking get around via bike for more than 2 months of the year I'll be able to take more action in my community. Hopefully then I won't be surrounded by entirely Trumpers and libs either.
❤️️Good job doing what you can!