It’s not looking good is it?

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Cost of living crisis
Choice between heating v eating
Pound dramatically falling
Higher interest rates
NHS on brink of collapse

And now the warning of a flu-covid “twindemic” this Winter

It’s all quite overwhelming and sad and seems to be never ending 😞

I have plenty of ways to relax.

I just don’t spend my life in denial. Feeling angry is healthy, I am not in the business of suppressing or hiding from things. Better to tackle it head on.

But you didn't starve, you are here to tell the tale about your porridge days!

It is called resilience, and yes we struggled in the 1970s with no power, little food and many other issues. Throughout history this has happened, and people come through it. It will be nothing like the difficulties during the world wars etc, we will be just fine and you will be able to eat more than flour and porridge of that I am certain!!!

All of this ^

The general public hiding from the news is a disaster. If people took more interest in real news and made more effort to understand, we might not be here in the first place.

You are only damaging yourself with anger, better to be proactive.

Absolutely absurd tin foil hat thinking. Don’t look up and all that.

100%this

How so?

Anger is a normal emotion. It’s unhealthy to lash out with it and unhealthy to hide from it.

You don’t know me or my history.

One thing I have observed in life is that many people who are damaged are the ones who keep trying to gaslight, hide and obscure reality and then get irritated when others do not.

This government has fucked our country. This is not the time to stick on classic FM.

Read the FT and Times, Telegraph and there you can read in depth analysis in a calm and measured way, without the hysteria and come to your own conclusions. Keep away from the news channels, they are just creating drama out of everything to keep people tuned in.

We are most likely to be in a far better position than many other countries in the west this winter. I am feeling quite confident we will ride it out.

I think you are a lot of a conspiracy theorist.

These people were 'got' because they were/are shit. It is not more complicated than that.

Denying anger is not healthy at all. Suppression of anger often leads to depression and inertia.

Being proactive is often what follows anger anyway - many campaigners are motivated by their anger. Righteous anger is valuable.

It is fascinating to see some people continually spin reality as doom mongering/media issues. I wonder what it would be like to meet them in real life, who they are and what their background is, that so clearly blinkers either in what they actually believe or what they at least type.

The Telegraph and Times? Absolutely not.

“We” on average may well do but if you get beyond averages (and anyone with basic understanding of GCSEs should know what averages are) then people will not.

Averages allow people to ignore the reality of their fellow citizens starving and freezing this winter. It is a way of disassociating from the reality for many.

I find that incredibly awful - growing up, I know that on average, on paper the economy survived but at what cost?

You won’t get that in the Times or Telegraph. At least have the decency to suggest a range of papers across the spectrum instead of a narrow right wing window into the world. I read a shit ton of papers and journals, I am even reading books by Truss/Kwarteng/Mogg because it is important for me to understand their rationale even though I vehemently disagree with it.

Some perspective is required.

You are overreacting, but if you want to 'feel' your anger, go ahead. Putin is a great place to start, as he is responsible for much of this.

We are at war, no one is saying it out loud, but we certainly are. Look at the Nord Stream attack yesterday near Denmark, and the deliberate crashing of the energy markets. The west are at war with Russia and there is going to be consequences, it is up to you how you deal with your emotions. You could help the effort with Ukrainians, you can offer to volunteer in a food bank. There are many ways to react - but simply sitting there stewing in anger will make you ill and ruin your relationships and damage your body.

'But you didn't starve' has to be one of the shittest responses I have ever read.

for you @Kissingfrogs25

Stop reading the news it's all doom and gloom.

I've deleted the sky app off my phone and I'm just focusing on being happy as I can be

Well you can stew in negativity and misery, I am going out for a run. Have a good day all.

Great, I didn’t starve! @Kissingfrogs25

And actually I did starve, I just didn’t starve to death.

seriously, I want better than that quite frankly for children of today, especially when I see millionaires vacuuming up the wealth when they don’t need quite as much.

Running away from reality!

Enjoy.

I don't want to retreat to the inside of my little head and pretend things are not happening.

How many of you lived through the 70s/80s? They were shit. High unemployment, high inflation, I lived in an area where the mines were being shut down, we had power cuts, bin strikes, bread strikes, constant doom and gloom about acid rain and the Cold War, riots, the Falkland war, I could go on. Yes it's crap now and Covid was obviously unique but a lot of the doom
and gloom is media generated - it sells papers.

OP you forgot nuclear war!

Unless you’re in your late 80s, there’s a decent chance that this will in fact be worse than anything you’ve lived through for a decent proportion of the country. This could be the worst decline in living standards in your lifetime. You might be lucky and escape the worst effects personally, but the further decline in public services, rise in crime, rampant inflation will have some effect even if you think you’re insulated.

This is such a good plan otherwise internet algorithms just feed you news they think you are interested in therefore scaremongering you and putting you in a mind tunnel

Economic downturns happen. It's life. In fact it's important to go through bad times because we learn from them.

Attitude is everything. Even bad times (maybe even especially bad times) give us opportunities to make our lives better. Necessity is the mother of invention.

Angry victims won't see that. They'll stay angry. The quiet, wiser ones will see it for what it is and ride it out, and when the world turns again - as it will - they will thrive.