I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. This is some classic hydro homie advice.

Hey judge, did you know you are one of the only people that can hold him accountable for having done something “unlawfully,” as you described?

Defund?

No no no.

Abolish?

That’s a start.

Prosecute.

That’s my baseline. Anyone asking for less doesn’t have my vote.

One of very few movies you can do very little to describe without giving away the movies big moment.

Guy loves participation trophies.

Must be nice to be able to walk away from 6 figures to study poems.

Our HR person is an Al and every new hire thinks they’re an AI.

Any competent lawyer would demolish that position.

Those Lemmy commenters are CCP, Israel, Russia, or someone swooped up in their propaganda games. Shit is rampant. Doomers as far as the eye can see.

Can you imagine if all your farts were sharts?

A life I don’t wanna wish on anybody 😔

I disagree. Anyone this high up in shit has a dead man’s switch. Killing her is a fools errand.

sighs in accordion 🪗

No homo 🤠

Did y’all know we’re giving $9B in missiles to the 9/11 guys?

$9B. In missiles. To the Saudis.

But no, totally, let’s make getting a roof over Americans heads more difficult because America First or something.

I am 99% sure it is a CCP effort. Been tracking it for like a year now. Hard to track because it’s contagious.

For the love of God always call out doomers for being suspect. They’re not here because they’re feeling impending doom. They’re here to make you feel impending doom.

Whateverrr.

All these things you’re feeling are super normal. Not fun, but not terribly worrisome beyond discomfort. Not trying to minimize. It still sucks. I know.

lying in bed most of the day and having 2-3 panic attacks.

1. Exercise. Nobody having a tough time wants to hear it, I know. Replaying conversations and ruminating and wondering if you read their reaction right or if you said the right thing or if you fucked something up or if they were just being nice or… omfg it’s exhausting.

You know what else is exhausting? Exercise. It’s impossible to do both. Go walk up a steep hill. If you can still ruminate, walk faster. You will be all consumed with focusing on your breathing. Bonus points if there’s a view at the top. Don’t forget to bring water.

I have a lot of trepidation around, and fawn a lot with the colleagues that set me tasks

2. Try writing. You might be real good at organizing thoughts but pen and paper is better. Guaranteed. It can be a vent for the frustrating feelings you are (seemingly) burying, which are (probably) exhausting you.

Even though I can see objectively that I am not in any danger.

3. Go do something (safe) you’d never do. Like a dance class, or singing lessons. Not for intuitive reasons, but to expand your window of tolerance for discomfort in otherwise nonthreatening situations. If you fuck up at work it could have real consequences and that can make anxiety feel real and present when it isn’t actually a present threat (we tend to do a bit of magical thinking when we anxiously ruminate. Make lots of assumptions etc). Go create that feeling and learn to sit in it and tolerate it. But make it fun.

but I still have a real lack of energy outside of work and spend a lot of time anxious about the next working day. It’s impacting my life a great deal.

Again, exercise. Just go for an hour long walk or something. Get your heart working. You might be surprised how much our heart health affects our emotional states (particularly the transition between those states, and how it feels; this is mostly blood pressure but also heart rate related). The ruminating, the exhaustion, it’s real. Make it physical, your heart will thank you and your emotions will follow

One more thing: get out of your head. What do I mean? Focus on your senses. When you’re overwhelmed, thinking about something PAST or FUTURE, stop. Name 5 things you see. 4 things you hear. 3 things you feel (physical touch, like your shirt on your shoulders). 2 things you smell. 1 thing you taste. This will force your brain to cut the ruminative loop and get present, back down to earth and out of your own assho–head. Out of your own head. :)

Does anyone have any similar experiences, or ideas of how to stop these situations from having such a big effect on the rest of my life?

Literally decades of experiences. Only other advice I have is recognize what you do to numb out. Is it drink? Smoke weed? Doom scroll? Sleep? Recognize this is a maladaptive coping mechanism that is shrinking your window of tolerance for discomfort.

That sounds frighteningly boring.

Black holes not only don’t have surfaces, they dont have suns.

He’s seen it first hand

He can’t forget it

They live different from you

You dont understand