#coping
Ich mal so frei und tagge eure #Weltsicht als #Legacy, damit das alle gleich sehen können, und es zu weniger Missverständnissen kommt.
Robert Reich asks "How Are You Coping?"
I responded at some length.
#Coping, #Fascism, #LGBT, #RobertReich, #Trans, #Transgender
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/
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
#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.
This remote Moroccan village is still waiting for earthquake aid | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
Days after the devastating earthquake in Morocco, remote villages in the Atlas Mountains are still waiting for aid. Al Jazeera’s Stefanie Dekker travelled to...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #AtlasMountains #StefanieDekker #aid #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #coping #devastating #earthquake #latestnews #newsheadlines #remote #travelled #villages #waiting
This remote Moroccan village is still waiting for earthquake aid | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
#change #crisis #time_frame #acceleration #calculus #climate_change #biodiversity #ecology #environment #politics #economics #media #coping #caring #death #global #future
Toot Redux (first published 2nd August 2021)