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[–] [email protected] 78 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You could try talking to a therapist. When they have an opening in 3 months. Which you'll have to use one of your 3 annual sick days for. And pay out of pocket because the insurance that your employer takes $400/mo out of your paycheck for doesn't cover that therapist.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 8 months ago (1 children)

while you are in the middle of a mental health crisis is a great time to start looking for a therapist because you can navigate the complicated mental health care system, wait patiently, and pay cash for something insurance claims to cover.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

Sorry, you’re pre existing, we can’t cover you.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Work remote, cry at home 👍

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Made me giggle while working at home 👉

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Working at home on Lemmy ;)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

2meirl4meirl

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I upvoted but please know I hate this

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

thank you...?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Post deleted reason : Too real.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This might be too rl for me.

[–] Jax 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you're spending what seems like an inordinate amount of time cooking and cleaning during the week, meal prep! It helps me have time to unwind during the week.

If your soul is slowly being crushed by the corporate hellscape that is the United States... I don't have a remedy for that. Except maybe whiskey on the rocks and a joint, but that's a bandaid.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Im so sticky from band-aids my brother

[–] Jax 1 points 7 months ago

If you're suffering from a self induced allergy to the adhesive you're using, try Kratom!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

On the bright side, there WILL come a day for all of us when we don't have to anymore.

A small mercy, but better than this for all eternity. Sad that our species took the paradise we spawned from and turned it into a torture chamber for many to most.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Of course.

Lol you didn't think I might have meant retirement, do you? The capitalists have been phasing out peasant retirement for half a century to increase the acceleration of their ego scores and buy second super yachts to keep their first super yachts company. Now just the capitalists and their most devoted little class traitor sycophants are permitted to stop laboring for the masters before they flatline.

To be fair, I hear super yachts get pretty lonely though...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

At least they have a crew to keep them company while they’re lonely.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think we just stumbled onto a great idea for a new Pixar franchise.

Bezos Bound: The Sad Giant Super Yacht

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

top tip for happiness (unfortunately) is to live within 20 mins of where you work.

[–] CaptainEffort 6 points 8 months ago

I relate to this way too much… but for me that feeling’s so overwhelming that I rely on substances to suppress it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

so stop taking it then? organize, unionize, make it known that this isn't okay and things need to change.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Unionizing is hard in many cases. Big companies intentionally make it so.