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There’s a kind of emotional fatigue no one warns you about. The kind that doesn’t come from your own life, but from carrying the weight of everyone else’s. News. Crisis. Updates. All the time.

You think awareness is the responsible thing. But eventually, something shifts. You stop reacting. Not because you don’t care, but because there’s nowhere left to put the caring.

I found a reflection that put that feeling into words. It doesn’t offer solutions. Just resonance.

Have you felt this kind of quiet saturation? When your empathy doesn’t disappear, it just stops fitting inside you?

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[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago

Yes and no, i cam absolutely see how you get there though

I use triage to "cope". Pare it away and for me the things that matter most are the enviorment and inequality.

Without the former nothing else matters becase there is no future possible with no liveable biosphere (anti car, anti growth, anti nation state, aethiest etc), without the latter, humanity doesn't matter (some random person from Sudan is as important as my fellow "citizens") , so i become interested in, read about, pay attention to and support those at the intersection of those two priorities

I long ago came to understand thats not how most people see the world bit that brings me some comfirt.

[–] Whats_a_lemmy@ponder.cat 2 points 3 days ago

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[–] CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Oh, I'm with you in this. I've been trying to stay away from social media. All of the news and posts are mostly negative and it wears on you. I'm trying to put blinders on and focus on what's around me

[–] PowerfulPug 6 points 5 days ago

I'm going through this right now. It's like I've reached the point of burn out where I can't handle one more podcast, one more video, one more article, one more opinion. It's not that I don't care, it's that I care very deeply and lost the ability to cope with that and then hit a wall where I need absolute silence to recover.