In every online community I’ve ever seen, winter depression has been a noticeable thing, and this site is no exception. The combination of weather and being indoors, having to deal with shitty family over the holidays, being lonely over the holidays, etc. is bad enough, but I feel like this year is worse than usual due to the election and other events.

I don’t know if recent bad vibes might be in part due to this, but regardless, please treat both yourself and others with kindness, at least as much you’re able to. Also, don’t hesitate to open up to people you trust if there’s anything on your mind you want to discuss.

Does anyone else have any good tips for dealing with it? Please let us know in the comments, and thank you for reading this.

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[–] OnlineBrainworms@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Thanks for this. I've been pretty depressed since the election. I’m so tired of fighting.

I'm not looking forward to 4 years of Trump trying to destroy marginalized people and having to organize against that happening. It makes me feel like a pawn of the liberals too, since they only organize against it when it's a republicans doing the bad things, so working with them feels too gross, I can't do it any more. They are so disingenuous and easily manipulated by liberal MSM into the correct liberal outrage of the day. I don't even want to watch it all happen. Ughhhh I'm so sick of it all.