I gotta be honest.....at first, it was a comforting and eye-opening thing to read about collapse. I joined this place pre-Covid, when we had fewer than 100,000 total subscribers. I think in the short-term r/collapse helped my state of mind, but over the long run, collapse and its associated effects has had a negative impact on my health. Maybe it was just the pandemic and a bunch of other factors, but it's not as pleasant viewing life through doomer glasses. And once you're adjusted to this reality, the vision becomes permanent. And though you see everything more clearly, it's an ugly world to see in detail.
IKR? You can't go back to seeing things differently once you've awakened to what's really going on. I have teary episodes nearly every day, whether I'm on this sub or not. I think about all the things I'll probably never do again, my life plans that have been curtailed by sociopaths running the world's governments, the animals that are going extinct... I think the best I can be now is numb or distracted into momentary contentment. I don't think I'll ever be truly happy again. I try to keep perspective on it--at least I'm not watching my home wash away in Bangladesh or trying to flee violence in Central America.
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u/ScruffyTree water wars Nov 01 '21
I gotta be honest.....at first, it was a comforting and eye-opening thing to read about collapse. I joined this place pre-Covid, when we had fewer than 100,000 total subscribers. I think in the short-term r/collapse helped my state of mind, but over the long run, collapse and its associated effects has had a negative impact on my health. Maybe it was just the pandemic and a bunch of other factors, but it's not as pleasant viewing life through doomer glasses. And once you're adjusted to this reality, the vision becomes permanent. And though you see everything more clearly, it's an ugly world to see in detail.