#doomer mentality

[laidbackmarco]

What if I achieve my dreams and still feel unhappy?

[cuteeth2]

[mspec-defender]

I think people need to understand this

Twitter does not represent the majority of what people think

Nazis on Twitter don’t represent the average person.

If you find yourself doomscrolling, teach yourself to stop

The Nazi Troll on Twitter is a loser who wastes their lives away on Twitter and you are better than them.

Lay off on political content if it means protecting your mental health

You do not need to feed trolls on Twitter.

[milkiie]

one "weird" boundary i have established in my life that has been highly constructive is absolutely no depressing humor (self-deprication, 'guess i'll kill myself', doomerisms, etc.)

i stopped making those jokes and told everyone to not make them around me

i cannot begin to explain how beneficial that was to my confidence, mental health and mindset

[monsterblogging]

Pacific Rim creator Travis Beacham on mental health in these times

"No issue I care about is addressed by me having worse mental health."

[nemugyo]

made for you

[ayaisokay]

The Kids Aren't Alright

* ~ I'm sorry for making this ~ *

Doomers & Fatalism

Regardless of your age, you need a reason to move forward. You need hope. Yet, it's hard to find hope for teens and young adults.

Not a year goes by without an update on the planet's decline (at our hand), wealth is only feeling more unstable and unequally distributed, a pandemic destroyed any hope of sociability for some, and social media does more harm than good when it "connects" people.

There's no true community, nothing to take pride in, there's hardly motivation for ambition or wealth. Hell, we grow up being told we'll be a generation of renters, because it's a statistical improbability than any of us will EVER afford a home without working 3 jobs into our grave.

I can't speak for America, but I know my government haven't made any real effort to prevent renter's from taking that news and slowly inflating rent costs each month.

I'm a part of the generation that is thought to deal with the broadest range of mental health concerns; however, I'm also part of the generation that's most likely to be told to "deal with it," or "grow up," by the people perpetuating our suffering, or the peers that fell victim to toxic hustle culture— enabling the shitty circumstances.

When you start adulthood with so many problems that directly impact your life, most of which come at no fault of your own, you'd hope for help in addressing those matters, but it never comes.

We're told we're lazy, we don't try hard enough, and we've got it easy (which is a demonstrable lie). How is it any surprise we became hopeless doomers? At some point you just get the idea that we were destined to fail.

Threats of War

Now we're told to be ready for World War 3 and I'm struggling to understand why. What values am I defending? Why should I die for a country that doesn't care about me?

Sure, Ukraine and Palestine are in shitty situations, but saying that doesn't require me to do anything. Though they demonstrate something: the government will risk our lives for money, and turn a blind eye to genocide if it suits them.

All that matters is that we're made to feel like our interests align. They don't represent us. They represent themselves.

Don't get me wrong, I don't support either conflict, and I sympathise with the aforementioned nations; however, I am not willing to die for them— I don't think you are. So is it even fair for us to bother complaining? It's not like diplomacy has done a thing so far.

Whether we're roped into a war or not, it doesn't feel like we'd have a choice.

Hobbies and Corporations

Normally I'd propose finding an outlet for everything. I'm not sure that's ideal anymore. Commonplace hobbies like gaming, sports, martial arts, reading, and art, they require 3 things: time, motivation, and effort.

Thanks to hustle culture, holding 3 jobs, running a drop shipping business, and abandoning any meaningful social life is considered just enough and reasonable. That doesn't leave time for personal hobbies, entertainment, or time to actually live. A life like that is no life at all. You're an animal operating on the exclusive goal of survival. You're alive, but you're not living.

Among those of us too physically or mentally scarred to work like our peers, we compassionately took to pen and paper, or software and devices, writing stories, drawing and animating worlds, or making music.

I fear that pocket of joy is getting smaller. AI image generation has already impacted artists, AI voice recreations are already being used in place of some voice actors, and we've all seen the AI voice covers for songs— claiming "you don't need to learn to sing." It didn't take long for me to see "generative AI" being proposed as a source for track samples and stems in music production.

Considering such things, it's hard to motivate yourself to put your work out there. You struggle to justify spending time creating anything, and you're probably not ready to put the effort into producing enough algorithm optimised works per day. After all, no one will see it. No one cares.

That's how it feels.

Social Media

Maybe we still have digital spaces? Really. Are cespools like Twitter spaces you can enjoy? Even Tumblr is quite detached, with small accounts struggling to get so much as a couple likes— nevermind a reblog, and god forbid you get a comment or DM.

That's minor though, it's the relationships that bother me. The ability to lock someone out of your life, within 5 seconds, for the slightest of perceived infractions. You're sensitive and a snowflake if you need boundaries, and you're "rude" and "mean" when you're pushed too far for not establishing them.

You can join a fandom or community and run into those issues, but do you really need more trouble? Ive hung around with furries since I was 13 or 14. It wasn't a furry that SA'd me, and I've never been groomed. But as a child online, I was labelled as a dog fucking groomer (at 15), because I was in a furry community discord server. I don't like to think about how that made the young adult owner of the server feel.

Social media is good for "satirical trolls," who take pleasure in hurting as many people as they can, and then claiming it's OK because they're joking, and you should've known. Is it really worth the effort for anyone else? You know, us "normal people," not bogged down by million strong fanbases, actively managing parasocial relationships and morally questionable stalking.

Closing Statements

I'm not entirely sure why I wrote this post. I guess I'm just another girl crying on the internet when I should save it for the therapy I can't actually afford.

I want to be hopeful, to feel like there's something attainable to desire, or even just things to look forward to. It's been a long time since I woke up and felt there was a good reason to be awake or even alive.

Thanks,

- The Girl That Doesn't Exist

[finnsworlds]

Reminder: don't get apathetic because you feel like the world is crumbling, don't be disillusioned by life, don't hurt yourself. find those people who need protecting, find people who will protect you and most importantly get offline! Protest through your existence, protest with your screams, protest with your art, protest with your writing, protest with your love for those around you, protest with your music, protest with your friends, protest with the rest of us because without you, that narrows the chances of true change being made!!!! I want you to be safe, that is your protest

[bright-and-burning]

it’s race #4 boys ain’t shit over til it’s over and it’s literally just beginning etc etc

[suakkomarigamichibitarulumity]

I know things are looking grim, but please, don't lose hope.

Remember that progress is not a completely linear process - sometimes we end up taking some unwanted steps back, yet we keep moving forward regardless.

No matter how slow it may seem, no matter how big the setbacks appear to be.

[venacoeurva]

Alright, inevitably political posts have are going to keep ramping up on here for obvious reasons, so for the love of whatever make sure the posts you're sharing aren't debunked or partially incorrect, outdated, rumors taken as fact, or lacking significant updates that affect being informed on the situation. I saw entirely too many of those pass by on my dash and blogs I was looking at around the election.

Like, there are timestamps, use them, look at them. And check the notes, the replies, if something is false or outdated people will usually call it out in those often and offer sources (which are also worth scrutinizing).

If there's any posts worth taking the time and energy of inspecting the post and sifting through notes/replies, it's those because you're trying to pass on information and it's pointless if you're blindly just reblogging anything that sounds plausible but you don't bother to vet at all.

[ro-bee]

I'm thinking about goat again (ah... My goat.... Ah that fucking purple beast... Damn)

I'm making something new with them (again god dammit) because idk I feel really sentimental, oh I love them so much I want to analyse them under a microscope

So I'm sketching down the first meeting with wolf 🚶 they're in my brain I can't stop them!!help!!!!!

[ria-air]

haunted by post final ginzura thoughts

the epilogue gave us nothing regarding their relationship, but we have a slightly melancholy gin-san who has failed to keep his promises to shoyo and takasugi and zura who literally keeps appearing as a ghost of sorts?? The “back to the beginning” happy ending??? how do they even look at each other without being reminded of what they have lost???

[marsixm]

above all else i always try to see a path forward, and to have hope that there will be a way through anything 🫶

[bisexualgenderfemme]

always makes me sad when ppl outright decide to never try hrt (even tho they want to & even tho they could abstractly & even tho they're definitely dysphoric now) bc it 'wont do much'

you don't know that!! you don't! it could do everything! & also? you HATE yourself now! isn't /anything/ better than nothing? I'm not saying it's not hard, or that there's not obstacles, or that it'll be a huge wild drastic change leaving u unrecognizable. I'm just saying: you do not know what hrt can do for you until you try it.

[t3chkn1ght-blog]

The darkest thought I regularly have (Does anyone else have this)

Every time I hear of how the world is becoming more conservative/facist/misinformed/evil.... when I hear of bigotry or injustice in society/the system, my first thought is always this: "Why don't we just kill them?" it always comes back to the same thought, and the worst part is it feels logical. "They hurt people. Therefore, they should die." "They didn't harm for good reason. Therefore they should die" "They have no remorse nor intention to change, therefore they can't be redeemed and therefore should die." "They're on the same side as Hitler, therefore they should die." And all the standard lines, I have a way to rebuke. "If you kill them, you're just like them." If you kill Hitler, you're not as bad as Hitler. I'm killing them for justice, not for fun. "This is genocide" Genocide is killing millions of innocent people for things they can't control. This is nothing like that. We'd be disposing of fascists for the beliefs they choose to hold and the harm they have/will cause. They are neither innocent nor people. "Two wrongs don't make a right." Who said there were two wrongs? This is just karma/justice. "Conservatives/Fascists are people too" Are they? Because they sure don't act like it. This is not how "people" act. This is how monsters act. And monsters exist to be killed. "Conservatives/Fascists shouldn't be written off as Pure Evil" If you want to harm marginalized groups simply for money or pleasure, then you are OBJECTIVELY EVIL! There is no world in which you are a good person. "You could end up killing lots of innocent people in the process." So? They can repopulate and it'll be as though we've never lost them.

I'm often sickened with myself for thinking this way..... but at the same time, it feels logical and even moral. I try to practice empathy, but that just results in "If I were gay/black/trans/female/etc, I'd want this person dead EVEN MORE!" It's really been fucking up my mental health (more than it already has).... but nothing I try seems to work. Looking up "good deeds of conservatives" does nothing, peaceful protest does jackshit, and nobody else seems to even consider that maybe the transphobic, misogynistic neo-nazi pedophile rapist doesn't deserve to live.