to feel like everything is going to shit?

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Just that really. Cost of living, climate change, rise of extreme right wing politics, bloody Putin, China, Trump possibly back in in 2024. Feels like the world is going to hell in a handcart right now. And just read this article on a UN report which apparently came out earlier this year, which I had seen neither hide nor hair of in the media, warning we are headed for "total societal collapse": bylinetimes.com/2022/05/26/un-warns-of-total-societal-collapse-due-to-breaching-of-planetary-boundaries/

Meanwhile our politicians are too busy playing out their petty little ego driven squabbles to actually do anything.

I don't want to be all doom and gloom, I want to feel positive, but I don't at the moment. I am worried about my 2 DC and their future. Anyone else?

Yeah it’s dogshit. They don’t even have that little bit at the end of the news now to cheer you up, there’s no room for good news! I was watching the news last week and it was war, interest rates, redundancy, food shortages, strikes and then the ‘and finallay’ bit which I was waiting for was about how there’s gonna be a shortage of turkeys 🦃 this Christmas. I was thinking ‘aww you’re taking the piss now” I might be skint, at war, redundant or on strike but at least give me some turkey ffs.

I'm feeling very worried and scared. I avoid the news but it seems like most people are feeling an impending sense of dread.

I think you need to stop watching the news.
I am aware things are crap but don't tend to worry because I cannot control any of it.
I focus on the positives and try to live in the present: healthy DC, food and warmth, decent job.

I will add that the news tends almost always be negative because 'good' news doesn't sell or draw viewers.

Too many people in this world. Building too many houses, polluting and eradicating every green space. The more of us there are, the more we loathe each other.

It's my job, so it's pretty much impossible to avoid the news!

I dont want the news but I still absorb it from people.

That's shit!
Take a leaf--you cannot control any of it so why worry?! I do suggest to my DC not to have kids of their own though...
Also, bear in mind, things looked crap during two world wars (for Brits, anyhow!) we got through it!

I don't really feel like "avoid the news" is much of a solution, anyway.

Public services are noticably falling apart.

And no, 'avoiding the news' isn't a solution.

Absolutely. And the UK media in particular seems to be the worst offender.

Last week, for example, I noticed a definite agenda with the BBC. Bit on Sunderland, one of their highlights on UK areas. Lunchtime news, everything was great. Everyone they interviewed was upbeat. People opening businesses, good standard of living, people in jobs, lots of investment in the area, people hopeful about the future. Evening news, everyone starving, food banks, life gone to shit. One assumes the narrative follows the viewing figures. If you only watched the evening news, you are presented with a much more negative view, than if you had watched the lunchtime news, or both, as I did.

The way I look at it is that absolutely almost anything could happen in the next 10 years. Some great, some terrible, and I think the scales may swing back and forth for a bit before we see any kind of steady normality return.

Removing the environmental factor (which is literally the one thing we should all be moving toward sorting and ‘coming together’ on) the amount of tension within the political and financial side of things is quite stark.

And I don’t watch the news for anyone saying that usual line, but I am aware of history.

And I feel like the ‘we can’t control it so just relax’ is the exact opposite of how we should be feeling. I suspect local community will become increasingly important in the coming decade.

We CAN control it (or some of it, certainly climate change and politics). People don't want to mobilise in order to do so.

I agree.
Just be nice to the people around you. Expect the same in return. If everyone did this things would settle everywhere.

I’ve always been highly sceptical of “movements” and “activism” no matter how apparently well-intended. Narcissists at the top, almost always.

You’re not wrong. But, most of human history has been a mess and a miseryfest. ‘Normality’ or ‘steadiness’ isn’t really a thing- other than for a brief period in the 90s after the end of the Cold War- generally, we lurch from crisis to crisis and people have felt the way we do today all throughout history.

Which isn’t to say that this isn’t awful. Just that it’s not abnormal.

Climate change is the one that scares me the most.

It’s in flux, but on the flip side you hear of advancements all the time, stuff people in the past would love to have had

It’s not all gloom, not sure what to say other than try to protect your mh if it’s suffering

We did not start the fire

it was always burning, since the world’s been turning

there have always been wars, diseases, the end is nigh…

it’s all just a little bit of history repeating

We started the climate change fire!

Feel like this too. Also feels like constant divisiveness and a stream of narrative that is simply untrue - Brexit, covid etc.

The industrial revolution started in the 1700s which I would argue was the beginning of where we are now so not quite. I also don’t believe in it being down to personal responsibility, that will make the smallest dent. Changes need to be made from a government level. We have a lot of the solutions, they literally exist which is why I’m not entirely defeated by it.