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.

  • DirtyCNC@lemmynsfw.comOP
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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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      2 hours 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.