• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    lol I have absolutely had sessions like that with my old therapist after explaining why I’m so panicky sometimes, because I understand at a nuanced and historically informed level what’s happening at a political and geopolitical level here, and all of my bleakest predictions keep coming true

    • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      It would be really helpful for the depression if I could stop being proven terribly correct every single time anything happens.

    • ickplant@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 months ago

      I know what you mean. I largely predicted what is happening now back in 2015, and in this case it was my husband, not my therapist, who told me he believes “the system of checks and balances won’t allow it to happen.” He is an optimist and wanted to believe the US was still a good country. He now agrees with me and gets sad and angry any time something new and horrible happens.