Spooky Mistress Misandry Ain't That the Fucking Truth Me L Feel Like My Life Is Pointless Therapist Why? Me Lmpending Fascism and Climate Change Mean I Probably Won't Live to See 60' Therapist Are You Sure Thats Rational? Me *Looks at Camera Like Jim on the Office* Kate Wagner@mcmansionhell This Point in History Sure Is a Really Wild Time to Be Trying to Manage Mental Illness Show This Thread 528 PM 14 Oct 18 Castielific Wolfinthethorns Honestly in My Work as a Therapist I’m Seeing This a Lot and Tbh I Still Don’t Have a Satisfactory Approach to It a Heavy Dose of Existentialist “create Your Own Purpose” Tempered With “when the Plane’s Going Down Put Your Own Oxygen Mask on First” But… Yeah There Is No Ethical Way to Work on Individual Emotional Distress Without Acknowledging the Systemic Socioeconomic Geopolitical Fuckery Going on at the Moment and the Sheer Grief That Comes With It I’m a Guidance Counselorpsychologist for Teenagers and It’s Getting Really Hard to Motivate Young People to Work for a Future They Don’t Believe in They Look at Ther Future and See Global Warming wwIII Unemployement Political Unstability Poison in Everything They Eat the Earth and Animals Dying All Around Them I Saw This Video Where Someone Was Asking French Teens in the 50s How They Imagine the Future Would Be the War Hadn’t Been Over for Long and Yet It Was All Positive With Like Peace and Flying Cars and Such Then They Went and Ask the Same Questions to Nowadays Teens and Hell That Was Depressing Some Still Had Hope but It Was Just That “well I Hope I’ll Have a Nice House and Maybe Some Kid” but There Was Such a Hesitancy to It Like They Didn’t Dare to Hope Too Much People Mock Greta Thunberg but What They Don’t Get Is That When She Said “you Stole My Dreams” It Was the Truth Young People Don’t Get to Dream Like They Used to They Don’t Dream Anymore They Grief All That Won’t Be Anymore and That’s Just So Fucking Sad