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Mar. 5th, 2025 07:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jon_chaissonI really need to stop doomscrolling once and for all. It starts innocently enough, just popping in to see what's going on, and next thing you know...
Seriously. I have to remind myself that politics is not my forte and never was, because I'm just too easily emotionally swayed by it. I'll freely admit that. This is something I learned last time the fuckwit was in office. It's not that I don't want to take action or that I feel it doesn't concern me (oh, believe me it does), it's that I'm far too reactive to it. Always reacting to someone else's actions doesn't end it, it only deflects it, kicks it down the road. Lets them continue while I end up building up a trauma response. It's hard to do anything other than feel like shit because of that, and I can't keep doing that. It's not healthy and it doesn't fix the problem at all.
I have to remind myself that I'm not a front liner. I've always been the kind of person who'll already be prepared for whatever might be worse. That's where my strength is. I'm the kind of person whose emotional and mental strength is in calm preparedness and working out results when the other side isn't paying attention. I dearly hope it never gets that far, however.
Seriously. I have to remind myself that politics is not my forte and never was, because I'm just too easily emotionally swayed by it. I'll freely admit that. This is something I learned last time the fuckwit was in office. It's not that I don't want to take action or that I feel it doesn't concern me (oh, believe me it does), it's that I'm far too reactive to it. Always reacting to someone else's actions doesn't end it, it only deflects it, kicks it down the road. Lets them continue while I end up building up a trauma response. It's hard to do anything other than feel like shit because of that, and I can't keep doing that. It's not healthy and it doesn't fix the problem at all.
I have to remind myself that I'm not a front liner. I've always been the kind of person who'll already be prepared for whatever might be worse. That's where my strength is. I'm the kind of person whose emotional and mental strength is in calm preparedness and working out results when the other side isn't paying attention. I dearly hope it never gets that far, however.
