[along4theride]

I have had a really rough couple of years that I know people here can relate to. From losing my job and either staying unemployed/under employed, facing bankruptcy, to dealing with this disease, I feel most of the time that I am dangling from a very thin wire.

This incoming administration in the US is not helping me. I am really, really triggered by what's going on. I do what activism I can to help me feel like I have a tiny bit of control, but this is scaring the crap out of me. I find myself dreading the future, which is not a great feeling for one of our tribe.

If you've been able to motor through similar circumstances, what did you do?

[Ocean Swimmer]

Instead of looking at the big picture,use your energy for local causes.
I remember Mother Teresa saying,just say hi to a homeless person and make sure they know they're not alone.
Listen to audiobooks. Like Depak Chopra.
There's another saying, I loved the trees and they loved me back.
Try changing something in your own home. If you believe in the environment, change your light bulbs. Turn off the water in the shower when you're soaping up. Get solar.
This way you're standing for what you believe in. You're walking the talk.
I understand famine,war,changes of power are disturbing.
But we can all make a difference in our own way.

[Theresa1991]

I live in Germany so I am not just as affected by the changes of power that are coming on (even though we too are very worried).

But I can say from different situations from my own life, for example right now, I can feel things piling up and I don't know how to manage. Right now for example I started a new job, I am facing my final law exams, my kind of boyfriend just left the country and I don't know if I will ever see him again, I have to move out of my flat, I feel lonely where I live and so on. Moreover I am hypomanic in a very uncomfortable way because it makes me do things I'd rather not do.

So sometimes I feel so overwhelmed by everything that is coming on that I think it is impossible to manage. What I learned is to stop looking at the pile in my head and just face one day at a time. I try to think that the only thing I should worry about is tomorrow and doing whatever I can in the precise moment but not worry about things that still are not there.

So I write to-do-lists and try to make realistic plans about what I can achieve. That helps to get my thoughts away from the apocayptic scenario I have in my head.