To ask what are we all doing

It’s awful, the world is awful. I can’t watch the news anymore full stop- it’s too much. It truly is awful.
And most of these replies attacking the Op for caring and wanting to help are awful … OP is in a low place (could be related to other things as well, who knows?!) and this is the response you give? Educate OP by all means, but don’t lecture. There is no need to twist the knife in someone’s back. 😩😩

There's nothing wrong with caring, but OP is berating other people for wanting to have a moan about their situations, why is that ok but it's not ok for people to retaliate?

Someone's sobered up

Have you now carried out that Google search @Whathavewebecome1? Will you be joining any demonstrations? Have you at least written to your MP, which takes nothing but a little time? I would rather read the Style & Beauty posts of someone who has taken some action (no matter how small) than the chest beating, berating posts of someone who has in fact done nothing.

You could't be any more virtue signalling if you'd tried.

Wipe your snot and your tears, rip up your wooden floors, sell off them and send the money to MSF.

Job done.

Getting on with it is your job. You identify the (albeit limited) things you can do to directly support the people in crisis, then you find your courage and get on with the everyday things you normally do, supporting the people you would normally, and contributing in the way you usually would. If that means to use your example supporting your local takeaway with your custom, well, no its not as dramatic as some things the world needs to be done right now, but it matters to them.
You live your life, you help who you can where you can, and you have the grace to accept that your role sometimes has to be minor or inconsequential and played out on a smaller stage.

You can be informed about what's going on in the world without scrolling through some of the accounts you're linked to on social media. You only have one life, live it well, be happy you are safe and live in a conflict free place. Stop doom scrolling.

Fucking hell MN is a hateful, spiteful place sometimes.

Woman comes on saying she's distressed at the appalling news and suffering she sees, and gets jumped on by a set of arrogant self-satisfied people who think she has no right to express her legitimate overwhelming feelings of helplessness (which many people share).

How about not being so judgy "have you sobered up now?" FFS). ? And be constructive.

Not everyone has grown up as an activist or protester, not everyone knows where to start in helping. That's what being overwhelmed so all about. That paralysing feeling of not even knowing where to start.

So how about the snarky posters make some specific helpful suggestions rather than the nasty snidely posts?

Seriously people, stop being shitty. There's enough shit in the world without adding unnecessarily to it.

I'm now bracing myself to be jumped on too. Bring it.

She wasn't just expressing her feelings though. She was having a go at people for posting about things going on in their lives.

Agree

This is being shitty: All these trending posts about people worrying of their wood floors or not getting any takeaway food. Do we have any idea just how lucky we are to be complaining of such minor issues????!

If you make shitty comments trivialising people’s lives when you yourself have done nothing, you will get shitty comments.

If OP had just stuck to this “I’ve just sat and sobbed at some of the accounts I’ve been linked to on social media that show the true extent of the pain and devestation of all these poor Palestinian children. My heart is broken, we have to do something. I don’t know what. Please tell me what I can do.” she would have had a much better response.

Woman comes on saying she's distressed at the appalling news and suffering she sees,

But that wasn't what she did. It wasn't "AIBU to want to help but not know how?" It was berating people for complaining about small things, telling people they should be thankful. As though people are not allowed to complain about little things because another big thing has happened...

Big, scary things are happening every day in every part of the world. Ukraine and Russia are still at war, atrocities are happening in Mexico and Libya and North Korea, human rights are being restricted in numerous places. Palestine and Israel is just the one currently consuming the news. The others haven't gone away. If we only spent all our time worrying about them we'd collapse in on a spiral of helplessness.

Think you'll find she was the judgy one first by berating other people for their threads.

So what are you doing other than crying and starting a thread on. here ?
Its terrible what's happening but I have a lot going on in my own life with a severely disabled child, another who was recently diagnosed with Diabetes and is insulin dependent
Elderly frail.parents etc etc

But its ok.for th Op.to.Lecture and Berate others ?Ok🙄

Whathavewebecome1 Thousands and thousands of civilians have been killed in Ukraine by Russia. With many more displaced. How much have you been sobbing about this? How broken is your heart? How desperate to do something are you about this? This is geographically closer so easier to get to, what are you doing about it? Did you take in any Ukrainian refugees?

MN classic. Multiple people come on to post a berating post because they see a woman has berated others, and don't see the irony or their hypocrisy. 😂😂😂😂

To reiterate, the OP finished her post with these words " I don’t know what. Please tell me what I can do." So maybe, you know , help her ?

You’re right, I don’t see the irony in my response. I also don’t see that OP has actually taken heed of any of the posts that, you know, have tried to help her.

@FickleProcrastinator

@CarpeVitam why don't you provide a few links to enlighten the OP? Afterall, that is what they asked for and may not have the accessibility to do it themselves. For what it took you to respond, you could've possibly thrown out a few links you've researched?

And it the time it took you to type your response to me, you could have followed your own advice 🙄🤷‍♀️

Considering there is a serious conflict/disaster and mass deaths basically every month somewhere, some of you must just not do anything but sit and sob.
Or is it just the "popular deaths" on main UK news which get people and make them go and tell others hoe their little issues don't matter compared to these?

It's not like this though, is it?

OP isn't saying "help them because they are suffering", she's moaning "help them because I'm suffering".

She's taken people's misery and suffering and she's turned it all about her.