really sorry you’re feeling that way, comrade. depression is tough. hope you feel better soon.

I feel similar lately with sugar. Feels like this year has been extra stressful. Hope things get better for you soon, one way or another. ❤️

Stay strong, my (Brazilian) comrade. Capitalism stretches our willpower and stamina to the limit, but we need to keep going, if not for us, for our family or for our cause.

I am constantly feeling at the edge of burnout, with just a little push remaining before throwing me into depression. I do use food as a coping mechanism, but it isn’t being enough and now this addiction is starting to take its toll. I’m past overwheight, crossing the 80 kg line. I don’t have energy to do exercise and between all the demanding job activities and daily chores I wouldn’t have enough time, anyway. Now I also have a bad knee and back pain, as a consequence of neglecting physical activity and being overweight.

If I can give you any advice (which I probably won’t follow, personally - o velho ditado “faça o que eu digo mas não faça o que eu faço”), is that you should stop with your addictions ASAP to avoid them having a snowball effect on you.

But yeah, we live in capitalism, with all stress and pressure, so I’m not in a position to tell people how they should cope. The best I can do is give a positive message. And I’m rooting for you, comrade, and hope you feel better soon.

I hope their rust bucket navy sinks to the bottom of the ocean all on its own.

Glad that I could help. Not gonna lie but the psyop are getting wild. There are too many zionist bots active even in Iranian channels.

I can’t just imagine the amount of psyops comrades are receiving right now.

Congrats! Hope you get the spot and a nice pay!

Nice!!!

You too Oppo!

You too Oppo

Have a nice week! (ᵔᴥᵔ)

You too Comrade!

You too! May I be equipped with an animal post too please?

Don’t think it’s only a capitalism thing, but I guess capitalism causes so much psychic damage both due to how individualised the burden of existing is and how you constantly have to deal with completely unnecessary nonsense. Also drugs are commodities, so they fit very naturally into “fixing yourself” in capitalism compared to other economic systems, despite all laws. My smoking buddies are usually either political activists or homeless people, and it makes sense as those are two sets of people who engage with the irrationality of the shape of society on a day to day basis.

My hypothesis is that much of it comes from need(s) being unmet consistently and traumas that can linger even when needs are getting met from times in the past that they weren’t. Needs meaning basic things that include what people would usually think of like food, water, and shelter, but also includes less emphasized things (especially under capitalism) like intimate connection (can be platonic), sense of community (in the meaning of interdependence not fandoms), sense of purpose and direction, sense of safety and security.

Capitalism is far from the first or only system to fuck people up (formalized slavery comes to mind), but… if we’re looking at it in detail, capitalism puts the working class in a precarious position where they are disposable, which fucks with any sense of safety and security; it destroys community; it warps relationships toward the transactional; it reduces purpose to “live to make money and buy product”; it leaves direction in the hands of liberal individualism. From the perspective of basic needs, these are a lot of very big problems and it’s no small wonder people will turn to various unhealthy coping mechanisms, some of which plays right into capitalist profiteering; it has industries ready to fill the void with “treats” and the less fulfilling these treats are, the better (for the capitalist) because that means you’ll need to come back for another hit more often.

Its a function of neuro-chemistry not society or capitalism. People have been getting shitfaced since before the written word. Animals get fucked up on stuff if given the chance.

depression is certainly a side effect of capitalism. obviously there are other things that can cause it but more people are depressed than ever before (more or less) and i think the social isolation encouraged by current-stage capitalism is a factor. a lot of people choose to self-medicate. there have been times in my life i would get really down every month or so and decide to get really fucked up about it. usually it made me feel a bit better.

sorry to hear that :( honestly, hating the chemical randomness of one’s brain is something so relatable. so as to not feel anger or self-hatred i try to just think this is random and strange and out of my hands. i want to just survive this weird tumult and coast through it as best i can, sometimes just detaching myself from the world or being a bit mindless for a while, if i can afford it. i dont know if this is applicable or resonant advice at all.

i’ve grown to think that while there is such a thing as normal, everyone has some aspect of abnormality to them. additionally, i think every difference from normality has some value in its distinction from normality, even if it’s only to better understand what is truly universal to the human experience.

obviously that’s not to say the difference cannot also be challenging or disabling in our present society. but that has helped me a lot coming to term with my differences, big and small, is finding whatever value i can in them.

hope you feel better soon, comrade.

Chemicals, don’t flatten my mind

Chemicals, don’t mess me up this time

Know you bait me way more than you should

And it’s just like you to hurt me when I’m feeling good

It could be worse. Have you stayed doing the same thing for three-to-five hours every day, just staring at a map game? It fucking sucks, just wasting away. Hours gone I will never get back. At this point, I think you’re normal, to me atleast.

i miss him like a motherfucker right now, jesus

theres this one blogger (dont agree w him on everything, but he’s got a good head on most current geopolitical affairs, including supporting china/dprk as progressive for the world despite not being avowed ML) who argues world war iii has never ended, since the world has long remained at war in different theaters that in many cases are connected to USA waging war against red threat, so it’s really just one long war, USA against all the world and a better future

She’s a Chinese-Amerikan winter sports athlete who decided to compete in the Winter Olympics under the Chinese flag, and ofc she’s really good, so naturally the racism comes in because they can’t have a non-amerikan be good at what they do and not be amerikan

They hate her because she represented China instead of the US.

Gold medalist Olympic athlete making racist China haters mad.

For some reason you never see the same level of outrage when US athletes compete for the Zionist entity…