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anarch

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2. I don't really envy the young these days...
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 06:44 AM
Nov 2018

the world's challenges seem more intimidating now than they did when I was young; and hell I lived through the whole constant-fear-of-nuclear-annihilation thing...still, it's hard to avoid seeing a negative trend, looking at things from an historical perspective. I dunno; maybe I'm just depressed.

I saw a response somewhere to a comment along the lines of "this point in history must be a wild time to be trying to manage mental illness"...and the response was "ain't that the truth:

patient: "I feel like my life is pointless."

therapist: "Why?"

Patient: "Impending fascism and climate change mean I probably won't live to see 60."

therapist: "Are you sure that's rational?"

Patient: *looks at camera like Jim on 'The Office'*

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