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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • I feel you. My job is also preventing me from putting my limited energy into things I think are way more important, and I’m not sure about what to do about that.

    With burnout, it’s helped me to focus on the things that have gotten a lot better without denying the things that are absolutely unacceptable. Straddling past successes and present problems helps me deal with stress, because I know the past successes I live within included lots of the little failures, false starts, and periodic feelings of impotence that I’m experiencing now

    Learning about the internal lives of anti-oppressive people from the past also helped me because this feeling of burnout is totally normal in people who were successful in winning liberation, throughout history and across various movements

    A new thing I’m trying to do is focus on feelings of care/respect for people who are the most precarious more than I focus on the enormity of harmful systems or hostility for people perpetuating the harmful systems. I find I can maintain more energy when I focus on feeling excitement for how someone’s life (and our lives collectively) might improve if I work to end various oppressive influences rather than if I focus on grief/stress about how folks needlessly suffer (though all these feelings are important). Letting all of the feelings exist has been good instead of focusing exclusively on the lack-oriented ones




  • I’ve had a ton of trouble getting my meds too 😩 though in my case it was because the US DEA (cops 🙄) are ableist in addition their infamous racism/classism and wilfully refused to increase restrictions on manufacturing limits in time to allow companies to keep up with demand. People should have access to it to function, party, or function then party if they want imho, but that’s just me

    Can I ask what you did with your diet and vitamins that helped your meds function as they ought? I experience big swings from day-to-day in how well my meds work and I’ve noticed eating breakfast affects it but I haven’t figured out anything more specific. I know mileage may vary but I’m curious what helped for you