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July 15, 2024 1:10pm

Robert Reich asks "How Are You Coping?"

I responded at some length.

#Coping, #Fascism, #LGBT, #RobertReich, #Trans, #Transgender

Robert Reich asks “How Are You Coping?”

This morning, on his Substack, Robert Reich asks how we are coping with the news of the last couple of weeks. I answered him, and I’d like to share that answer here.

WIST

July 1, 2024 10:18pm

A quotation from Montesquieu

Study has always been for me the sovereign remedy against life’s unpleasantness, since I have never experienced any sorrow that an hour’s reading did not eliminate.

[L’étude a été pour moi le souverain remède contre les dégoûts de la vie, n’ayant jamais eu de chagrin qu’une heure de lecture n’ait dissipé.]

Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Pensées [Thoughts], # 213 (1720-1755) [tr. Clark (2012)]

#quote #quotes #quotation #anxiety #coping #irritation #reading #remedy #research #study #trouble #worry
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/montesquieu/70281/

Pensées [Thoughts], # 213 (1720-1755) [tr. Clark (2012)] - Montesquieu, Baron de | WIST Quotations

Study has always been for me the sovereign remedy against life’s unpleasantness, since I have never experienced any sorrow that an hour's reading did not eliminate. [L’étude a été pour moi le souverain remède contre les dégoûts de la vie, n’ayant...

John Hummel

May 24, 2024 12:42am

Cognitive dissonance and the history of people lying to themselves about impending (or present) disaster

Lying to Ourselves at The End of The World

Why the denial keeps getting worse.

Thanks to @Cass M for pointing this in my direction.

FTA: ... All this research tells us that as things get worse, so will the ferocity of the denial, both personal and institutional.

The article is insightful and informative. And it's not all gloom and doom. Toward the end, the author offers suggestions for coping and maybe even making a difference.

#GlobalWarming #Catastrophe #Denial #WeAreVerilyFucked #Coping

https://www.okdoomer.io/all-about-the-dissonance/

Lying to Ourselves at The End of The World

Why the denial keeps getting worse.

ohdeifepha

March 9, 2024 12:30pm

Adolescent psychopathic traits and adverse environments: Associations with socially adaptive outcomes | #psychology #psychopathy #empathy #manipulation #environment #sociology #adversity #strategy #coping #darktriad

Adolescent psychopathic traits and adverse environments: Associations with socially adaptive outcomes | Development and Psychopathology | Cambridge Core

Adolescent psychopathic traits and adverse environments: Associations with socially adaptive outcomes

libramoon

October 19, 2023 8:46pm

#coping centers

Long ago, in the high ‘60s, I met a happy couple whose hobby was talking with strangers. They put up signs on billboards to the effect of: Want to talk? Call [their number] between 8 pm and 2 am (or whatever the hours were that they were hanging out at home). That is how I met them. It was a simpler time, even in deepest Manhattan. They didn’t get harassing calls, rather mostly people who just wanted to be heard. Maybe they had a great idea, or something happened (good or bad) they wanted to share, or they wanted a sounding board to figure things out, or they liked conversation, or they were lonely.

Seeing a news report about the problems with accessing #psychotherapists these days, it occurred to me that we would all do better to have #neighborhood and online coping centers. Places anyone can access to talk, to #share emotional content, perhaps to engage in group #therapies, art, #community projects. If no one needs payment, there are no barriers from insurance or lack of affordability. Expenses could be shared by those who can, because this is a community effort for all of our benefit. #Health care professionals who like can not so much donate time as do their part as they see it. The point is, we can all be heard, all share our human burdens of pain and confusion and our human resources of being #listeners, growing a healthier future of #companionship instead isolating into hate.