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If you're in the US, how are you preparing for the election and dealing with the stress? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’ve already mailed in my ballot, and I volunteered to be a poll worker (though they haven’t gotten in touch). With a week (maybe two) to go before we get the result, I feel caught in a limbo. It feels more important to me to be copying my important documents and organizing go-bags to be ready for a crisis than it does to do anything at work. I also recognize that that is probably a reaction to stress and anxiety and isn’t helping me. That said, I’m part of many groups that the right-wing hates and is openly threatening, so feeling unsafe doesn’t feel unreasonable either.

How are you all holding up out there? And tips for me to deal with this better?

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[–] tyrefyre 142 points 1 month ago (20 children)

You gotta get to the point where you worry about the things you can control, and let go of the things that you can’t.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

there are more than a million less people alive in the United States today from a mismanaged federal global pandemic response because trump was in the big chair the last time, i'm sure the hundreds of millions effected by their loss, share your same karmic acceptance, that their lives were meaningless because they couldn't control who was making (or purposefully not making) the decisions their fates depended upon. all very zen.

[–] tyrefyre 3 points 1 month ago

And what does me having ulcer from worrying about it do?

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