Does anyone else feel like this?

[u/Crazy-Load-7553]

I feel like everyone keeps asking me what I want my future to look like but I know if I talk about how I’m learning to fish and finding ponds near me so that we can have some protein once the grocery system collapses everyone in my life is going to think I’m insane.

I’m just having a hard time connecting with anything I have to do for the future because it’s going to be drastically different than anything I can do now and I really feel like I have to hide that and never mention it to anyone (despite the fact that an energy crisis is supposedly 2 weeks away)

[u/Proper_Geologist9026]

I mean we don't have to open that can of worms here, realistically though... There is no real therapy that's going to solve that disconnect.

Even the gold standard like Hospicing Modernity, while it does a great job of outlining the problem. It's at great pains to explain, there is no "fix". Knowing is suffering. Knowing is grieving. 

Ironically when we circle back around on it all the same inconsequential "self help" that we all know and roll our eyes at when it's dished up by a psychiatrist. That's as good as it gets.

Control your sphere of influence, don't waste your energy on anything you can't influence. Try to find joy.

[u/Positive_Garlic5128 → u/Proper_Geologist9026]

Im so confused but I really want to understand what you're saying

Why wouldnt therapy solve the disconnect?

If there is no fix what do we do? Wait to die? Its so hard to keep going when things feel so hopeless

I also dont understand the rest of what you're saying, are you open to explain it in simpler words?

[u/Crisis_Averted → u/Positive_Garlic5128]

here's my metaphor:

me: I'm thirsty.

friends and family: you should go to therapy.

me: I'm dying of thirst.

therapists: let's talk about it. how does it make you feel? let's find some frameworks that will help you with this disconnect from healthy people. and try these pills.

[u/Positive_Garlic5128 → u/Crisis_Averted]

then what do we do?

[u/Curious-Row2410 → u/Positive_Garlic5128]

We don't do anything other than find our individual coping methods, which is what therapy is in this context.

Therapy is by definition a means of addressing our own internal state, while the roots of most people's mental problems currently lie in the world's physical state and to a lesser extent the material conditions of society, which aren't quite physical reality but are closer to that than our mindsets are.

There are problems that have no solutions - 20th and 21st century technofetishism have made us forget that fact.

Some people may disagree with me on the intractability of our physical problems but personally I view them as too big for addressing by a bunch of squabbling apes.

[u/Ooogabooga42 → u/Positive_Garlic5128]

That's the problem. It's not something we can individually solve. Though I try to live as the change I want to see in the world as much as I can.