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Angie Jukes's avatar

Absolutely get where you are coming from! Add to that, as an environmental professional I deal daily with our rush to make humans extinct. Never has my mantra been more appropriate 'it is better to light a candle than curse the darkness'. But these days I'm struggling to find the matches . . . 😢

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myles roberts's avatar

I understand entirely. I teach Politics, which means I have to engage with the news constantly and it definitely wrecks my mental health. Not just the horrors of what's happening, but being perpetually gaslit and lied to. As such, I've tuned out of the latest round of atrocities in Gaza for self-preservation, and I think it's helped my mental wellbeing. As self-help guru Friedrich Nietzsche once said, "if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Modern politics is designed to break people who care, It's OK to step back once in a while.

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