In a word, yes.

Thank you for asking.

When at my deepest darkest despair and debilitated state of dysfunction, all of the above mentioned is never off my super-personal focus on self.

For me personally when I am annihilated, decimated, destroyed in my own being and there is seemingly nothing left of the self that I know and love --- all that outer world 'stuff' (for lack of a better word at the moment) is ever-present in my mind 24/7 weaving itself right with all the me-focus issues, fears, worries, panics, anxieties, terrors.

That's why, like Johnny as well, I have to turn my mind away from things like The News, TV, magazines, newspapers, any Help Save Our World variety newsletters, whatever. Because I just cannot bear any more input of all that and the images into my poor brain to try to process, to make peace somehow with, knowing full well the senselessness and utter nonsense of it all in the first place.

When I become better I can then have-a-peek highly-selectively at only a few trusted sites ( that being I know real people involved with the work, e.g. my email newsletters from real life persons at my fave 'charity' at Give monthly and help them live wild at heart | The Wildcat Sanctuary.

With the heartwarming, as well as often heartbreaking news from my animal activists friends ... I then over time can build up some emotional and mental muscle to have a look at some of my preferred, trusted humanitarian sites and what is happening there. Same for our Mother Earth and Father Sky concerns. I go to my vetted and trusted sources to learn what's the news on their fronts.

I simply cannot do The News such as it is either on tv, internet, newspapers, or magazines, online newsletters, blogs, etc. It is simply too much for PoorPrincess's already overloaded neurocircuitry. Thus I do what I can from the capacity that I am able. That's what I bring to each and every day. And somehow that has to be "good enough".

I certainly do not need to have my mind harping on me that I "should be doing more" toward this or that end or ideal or need in the world. While it is that if I cannot "save my self" what can I truly have sustainably to offer unto something greater which I do care about all my life? We are each/all parts of the greater sum of the whole anyway. If only we could keep mindful of that.

Thanks for asking, Teacake. Great questions, good thread.

Respectfully,

PoorPrincess