to feel so sad and disillusioned with the world?

[DisillusionedWithTheWorld]

...I'm watching the news. It's all crazy. Trump, the Ukraine, Israel... even Mumsnet is full of madness lately. I wish I could move somewhere where everyone can just live quietly and in peace without all the nonsense and psychopathic narcissists that rule the planet right now. But that would probably have to involve me literally moving to another planet. And even then, DH reminded me just now that I'd have to rely on the likes of Musk, or the USA or Russia to get me out of here and off to mars! So I can't escape this crazy world or the nasty people that run it, even if life on another planet was possible.

Anyone else just feel like the world's gone mad, they are completely helpless to do anything about it, and to want to just find a way to escape it?

we just have to do what we can to make a difference, even if it may seem futile, but I don't believe that it is.

I'd like to have this attitude I think, but when I do small things it really does feel futile.

Use a cardboard straw, recycle my plastic bottles, devote my working life to the NHS, give money to charities, etc.. it feels so ridiculous when china is pumping out gallons of pollutants into the atmosphere every minute and my ten pounds a month or whatever for 'save the children' is less than a drop in the ocean when Israel is waltzing into Gaza and obliterating kids with the blink of an eye

:( and then I get all philosophical and start thinking what's the point of it all anyway. I'm here on this earth now, witnessing this. One day I'll be gone and my great grandchildren will be witnessing continued crap. Then one day there will be no human race and it will be like we were never here. What is the point of it all. All this nonsense. All this suffering and pain that so many have to endure

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I feel very much the same, OP. Sick of being told to just accept the way things are. I can acknowledge reality but I will never accept the world the way it is because then I'd have no reason to try make it better. This sums it up pretty succintly!

Christ MistressoftheDarkSide it sounds like you've been to hell. Absolutely devastating to lose three loved ones so quickly and bloody hell, the work of all the organising and sorting. It is so hard that you kind of lose yourself for a while don't you.

You will come back I promise and, in the meantime, tea, fags, cats and taking care of you are the way to go. Chocolate and long hot baths worked for me too.

Fathers Day is so hard for those of us who've lost our dads, especially if it's the first time since his passing. Your friend was insensitive at worst, clumsy at best. Speak to her - tell her how she made you feel, you're not being childish and it's not unimportant - she'll probably be gutted and won't be able to apologise enough. If not, then give her a wide berth because if she ain't gonna help you whilst you're down then what kind of friend is she.

I do hope you have someone to talk to. Just saying it all out might burst the bubble a bit.

I'm going to be thinking of you. You aren't alone and I know from experience even when all looks like shit things will get better. 💐

Tea and my cat really help me. I deleted Facebook during covid it was driving me insane. I'm sorry you have experienced so many bereavements in such a short space of time, dealing with all the bureaucracy after whilst grieving is so hard.

Thank you ❤️‍🔥 That means so much xxx

Have fed my nursing queen and sent kitten videos to my son and three close friends, one of whom was widowed ten days ago. But as we're crazy cat ladies, it's good love language. Glimmers. I try to see the glimmers x

Much love to you all ❤️

@MistressoftheDarkSide I send cat videos/photos to my kids everyday. I've just let my ginger out he's scrapping with another cat who dared enter our garden. Much love to you and your friend.

Thank you for sharing this.

I do agree it's a good idea to step back from the news at times. The first time Trump got elected, Michael Moore said something along the lines of, 'we can't take it all the time, but we don't have to - we can take turns.' I know my poor, battered nervous system feels better when I listen to music rather than the news.

So YANBU but also - the solution to despair is action. ie finding something you can do to make something better, even just a little bit - becoming part of the solution. eg if Trump's treatment of immigrants upsets you, there are immigrant-support organisations you can support; if it's climate change, there will be a local climate group you can join.

I feel the same way but am trying to make my own world as happy as possible.

Have just read that World War 3 has been prediction for 2025. Baba Vanga, Nostradamus, Athos Salomé, and Nicolas Aujula all warned of global war breaking out before year-end. From AI-driven cyber attacks to religion-fueled violence and deadly natural disasters, their predictions strangely match current world events.

Was going to start my diet today but have decided to finish off the chocolate biscuits and hope these psychics are talking rubbish.

Baba Vanga, Nostradamus, Athos Salomé, and Nicolas Aujula all warned of global war breaking out before year-end. From AI-driven cyber attacks to religion-fueled violence and deadly natural disasters, their predictions strangely match current world events.

That's not great, but I remember reading about 10 years ago, can't remember where I read it now, that the next world war would be started by Israel and in that region. That message has always stuck with me and I've always remembered it.

It does somewhat feel like these predictions are coming to fruition which is terrifying...

I feel the same. What is happening to the Palestinians and then listening to some of the Israelis speaking about it in such a callous way leaves me feeling utterly hopeless about the world. How can there be so much hatred towards other humans - and even children. Then there's Trump and his moronic cronies; Putin and Ukraine. The whole world just seems so hateful. I'm very scared for our children. I try not to watch the news anymore.

@DisillusionedWithTheWorld It can be all too easy to become overwhelmed with all the injustice that is so apparent in the World. When I find it too much, I disengage with the news, and things such as PM question time! Yes the big picture can look pretty bleak, but if people stopped trying to make a difference, such as donating to charity, a food band, giving outgrown clothes to a baby bank, etc, the list could go on forever, then things would be even worse. Never stop trying to do your little bit of good out there. Eat well, and be mindful of taking care of your physical, and mental health. That is what I try to do, daily. Just little things that I can actually have some element of control over.

I listen to the news but in bits to preserve my sense of well being. It’s getting very depressing and I think with groups like Reform coming into power, people are much more comfortable being/sharing their racist thoughts. I was in a coffee shop on the weekend and there was a small group of people openly talking amongst themselves what a great guy Enoch Powell was.

Thanks @LadyKenya

I think what you've said is quite impactful. I think I struggle hugely with issues of control anyway. When life is uncertain and I feel helpless I often start mucking about with my eating etc.. as it helps me feel more in control. I've been doing that lately which is a signal to myself that I'm feeling like things are out of my control.

To be honest, I think Gaza has been massively triggering for me (which I feel guilty for even saying because I am lucky to sit here in my warm home feeling triggered by it, and not actually there enduring it). I don't know how to process watching a genocide. I honestly don't know what to do with these feelings. I think social media is good in that it makes us more aware, but it's bad in some ways because you can literally watch death in real time and it's horrible to see pleas on twitter from people being bombed and hear people dying. I remember reading rafaat alareer's posts on twitter, and then the next minute he's dead. I remember listening to a journalist reporting from Gaza who's whole family were killed. He was speaking and crying at the same time. I'll never forget it. Then there were the images of the children hanging from the wall, decapitated etc.. You want it to stop. But there's absolutely nothing you can do. Even mass protests make zero difference. What else is there? What can we do? Nothing.

And then there's everything else in the world we can do nothing about. North Korea's treatment of orphaned children, of their people. Horrendous. The civil war in Sudan, the refugee crisis in Syria, then there's Ukraine, Congo, Yemen, Afghanistan... the list goes on.

Meanwhile, Musk farts about yielding a chainsaw and waving about his billions and Trump reposts stupid AI videos in his swim trunks with Netenyahu on the beach, calling Gaza 'Trump gaza' and eying up the graveyard of babies for a new real estate prospect.

I can't tolerate it all. I walk about feeling physically sick much of the time because of what is happening to real people with real lives.

I can't fathom how people such as Putin, Trump, Netenyahu, Kim Jong Un, Omar al Bashir, Teodoro Mbasogo, etc.. etc.. can live with themselves. Where is their heart? How can the pursuit of wealth and power corrupt a person this much.

I really struggle to make sense of everything.

I remember when I was at school, there was a prophecy that the world was going to end. We’re still here forty years later!

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We are living in a world governed by narcissists, psychopaths and sociapaths. All they want is money and power. We don't even register with them. We have been made powerless and easily replaced. AI will probably replace me in work in a few years.

Yes, it’s grotesque. I’m actually looking forward to oblivion. Pity it can’t be accessed easier.

Things certainly weren’t great in Northern Ireland in the 80s, and the UK mainland was on edge because of IRA bombs.

In the universe we are just a Petrie dish

The world, as run by humans, has always been the same. Just imagine living through WW2 with your sons or husbands being shipped off to fight. Or in occupied mainland Europe with the almost certainty that your children would be taken to the gas chamber and not before suffering rape and torture. I was a child at the height of the Cuban missile crisis and we actually had nuclear attack drills at school (which meant covering our eyes and hiding under desk). To this day I tremble at a sudden flash of lightning. Then there were the unprecedented nightly news reels of the sheer horror of war from Vietnam. As a teenager in the early 70's my friends and I were afraid to go shopping or to clubs in town in case we got blown to pieces by an IRA bomb. Basically humans suck.

I remember the gulf wars freaked me, especially the 2003. My son was ambulanced to a London hospital. There was talk of evacuating the hospital to a regional hospital in case it was targeted.

Also the war in Bosnia as that was just over the channel, ie. Mainland Europe and not a distant country.

The iRA bombs were a fact of life growing up. On tubes there were regular disruptions due to bomb alerts. Still don’t feel easy travelling on tubes as a result.

I try not to engage with the news.

It's hard if you are older becaus I remember a much better world. Most things worked most of the time. No the UK is knackered unless you are rich.

I can't fathom how people such as Putin, Trump, Netenyahu, Kim Jong Un, Omar al Bashir, Teodoro Mbasogo, etc.. etc.. can live with themselves. Where is their heart? How can the pursuit of wealth and power corrupt a person this much

I dare say if you dig around it will be linked to childhood. And psychopathic genes.