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Check In Thread: How Are You Doing, Comrade? (hexbear.net)

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

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For the older posters here, you know the drill. No struggle sessions, keep it nice.

For the newer folks, hi! I'm Corgi! I made these threads from time to time to see if everyone is doing OK. Got something cool you wanna talk about? Need an ear for venting? This is your space! Just be nice, this isn't the thread for arguments.

I made a down payment for next year's wedding recently, and I've been having a BLAST with the Retroid 3+. I've been going to the bar with the pup the last few days and just sitting with a pint and playing MVC2, Twisted Metal Black, Smash, and Mario. Met another Hexbear IRL recently, that was nice!

Hope everyone is doing well! Remember, you are loved stalin-heart

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A bit late this.

Also posted my reply to the wrong thread at first because tired.

But here we go, it was my last day of my summer work today and am a bit bummed out that an able-bodied co-worker announced midday that they have a very sore throat. After spending hours in my space. Made a joke about how everyone now gets a holiday (sick) thanks to her. She is also a racist, have noticed over the summer how she talks about minorities and is kind of ok with the alt-right government we now have. This person has power over the lives of folks that already in a very tough spot, that is the nature of our work.

I have been doing remote mostly because last time I got sick was last April when I had to do a lot of in person work and had a week off. So now I have a week off before my studies start in my unmasked university that got me sick last autumn. I did mask then but got it anyway, I am middle aged and at the uni with all the young folks.

One would think people doing social care work would know better or care more, but turns out the ableism in these spaces is the worst.

Have done so well at work too after I have realized I am audhd mid-pandemic and am better with my needs these days. But this you do you pandemic is wearing me out, have long hauled every time I got it. My partner is high risk and my everything so I am also scared of losing him.

Did not mask in the office because it is so stigmatized here, I did until last spring, but mentally could not anymore. Nobody here has masked since summer 2022.

Also my countrys government is looking to ban the symbols of communism and a liberal on Mastodon told me this is good because "the stuff from the black book of communism" basically. So just feeling a bit down today.

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

Depressed, unsure about a lot in life. Anyone else have brain fog? I feel like everything recently has to be an eli5. Feel isolated and without friends.

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

When I was in a bad place, time went real slow. I'm not perfect now but I am significantly better. There is a bit more colour and the music I listen to sounds all sped up. It's weird, I'll try to listen to sad stuff to make myself feel worse after something happens and the tempo feels like it's 10-20% faster than I remember.

That's all to say that our perception is largely affected by our cognitive state. I'd have a touch point like a character in a book (Prince Myshkin in The Idiot) or a person I respect (my partner, mom) who I'd try to use as a reference to compare my thoughts to. It would sort of tell me how out of whack I was. Of course the feelings are completely valid, it's only I wanted to know what a non-sad perspective might be to help me out when the chance came (infrequently, but enough to be worthwhile)

Wish you the best comrade. I'm struggling without friends as well. A quote from Aristotle:

"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."

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

Thank you for this comrade.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

ofc o7