I’m European but after doomscrolling on Lemmy, watching Last Week Tonight etc. I can’t keep my calm over the US election, which is not helping my existing depression and suspected ADHD. The only good thing I did today was not eat much (I’m overweight) and 15 minutes of gardening. I can’t keep todo lists because I’m really depressed over not having completing any meaningful item for weeks, and not even my long-abandoned passion projects spark joy anymore.

I’m afraid things will go very wrong for my mental state if Trump wins. I have two psychologists and a psychiatrist but I’m only meeting them next week. Please help me get my mind off this and maybe even get something done.

  • Fontasia@feddit.nl
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    18 hours ago

    The rest of Lemmy has had a meeting and decided that you no longer need to save the world. It was wrong of us to put that burden on you. Stop, rest save yourself first. We would love for you to volunteer to help when you are better.

    Your garden looks wonderful 😊

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      17 hours ago

      You haven’t seen my garden and it’s quite barren now that the vegetation period has ended for everything outside greenhouses.

      Anyway, you deserve a pic so here is one from earlier this year.


      (My phone is from 2013 and full of dust)

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        1 hour ago

        That’s a good size garden!

        My grandma used to have one like that and my best childhood memories are picking vegetables with her and then we’d cook them for dinner

        I never got into gardening except the last couple years and it’s very rewarding in the spring when you start seeing things sprout

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          10 hours ago

          I sure hope so, vegetables were fine but we barely got any fruit this year. Trees bloomed early and suffered frostbite.