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PeWu ,

I may be relatively young compared to other guys on this thread, but I’m also a victim of something like this. Recently I’m fighting with the company I’ve worked for over so tiny shit that it astonishes me, and terrifies because of consequences of incorrect actions from my side. I’ve understood years ago that I’m no one and will achieve nothing, so it hits less. This dread also comes in waves, as I was good for whole 3 months, and now to the same old shit. Sigh.

DrQuint ,

Always. I stopped caring. The world will burn, whatever. Who cares.

PeWu ,

“Who cares” is main reason why I have existential dread. Other reasons are that I’m just shit at living life.

Manifish_Destiny ,

Same.

Its taking a long while to not still have moments of dread though.

World’s fucked and burning. Somehow that’s partisan.

Almost 15% of the population of my country thinks climate change is fake news.

Massive corruption in the highest levels of government, which no one can apparently do anything about.

Massive wealth inequality, American dream is dead.

No one can afford a house because of the wealth inequality and companies like blackrock buying them all…

Also, we are going over the tipping point for mass extinction.

Yeah we are totally fucked in every direction. Time to do some drugs about it I guess.

TaleOfSammy ,
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Not enough of these say “hourly” for me to be comfortable answering.

Are y’all not freaking out every second or-…?

Tigbitties ,
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Weekly. I'm pushing 50yo too. My industry is dying a slow death.

toddalon OP ,

Not sure to up our down vote lol

HellAwaits ,

Every time I see a HexBear or Lemmygrad instance post. These people are so braindead that I just can’t accept life anymore.

Comp4 ,
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RENT FREE BABY !

GBU_28 ,

“I’m seen as toxic and think it’s fun. I like to own the libs. See my red hat?”

Trump fan or hexbear user hmmm

Comp4 , (edited )
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See this is amusing to me since im not even American. I dont really care that much about dunking on libs to be honest. I will fully admit that some of my comrades (its a nice gender neutral word) on hexbear like dunking on libs a lot…maybe even a bit to much. If you want to have a nice polite conversation about anything my dms are open or we can have it here.

chauncey ,

In my early twenties it was nearly constant. It’s subsided greatly since then. At a certain point I think I just accepted that “there is no meaning, so it’s ok”.

So once you get there, and you start understanding capitalism, then that takes over as the most all consuming topic.

Raisin8659 ,
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Often, although I suspect that I just feel bad, and need to make up stories to justify the bad feelings. So, it doesn’t have to be existential.

Kwakigra ,

Very rarely. Cosmic insignificance, radical freedom, the impossibility to establish or confirm ultimate Truth, and the socially constructed nature of most of our subjective realities did feel overwhelming to me when I was younger. As I’ve sat with these inescapable realities over the years they’re as much facts of life to me as my inevitable death. These are things which are completely outside of my control, so I just accept them as aspects of my reality and worry about what my limited self can affect for myself and those around me. By chance, my being is a somewhat self-aware mind in a human body so I’d like to experience being that for as long as I can. I try to help others out when I can as well. I would like to see us move toward a fair and just global society for mankind, but that’s not something any individual knows how to execute or probably is capable of executing. I’m not responsible for the success of that project and really no one can be, but I want that to happen so I try to contribute because that’s literally the most I’m capable of. For my physical self, either I can survive using the resources and skills I’ve accumulated over my lifetime in whatever context my world goes or I can’t. If I can’t survive, then I’m not going to be worried about anything after I’m dead so the prospect of my death doesn’t really bother me and never has.

ChaoticEntropy ,
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Errr… daily? To one degree or another, probably not healthy.

TheGuyTM3 ,
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Everytime i listen minecraft music for a while, i have terrible trougts about the future, all the persons i know dying one by one, and everything i know and use today being forgotten somehow.

benwubbleyou ,

It depends on where it comes from. There is a defeatism that comes from my cynicism, but there is also the existential dread lying awake at night that I deal with as well.

I’m curious about what specifically it is stemming from? In your post you mention feeling aged out in an industry you have become extremely accustomed to. Do you feel like your value is very much driven by what you do? If you were to be aged out and eventually replaced do you feel like a large part of yourself would be missing?

In regards to how often I experience dread, it can be an every day thing. But it depends on what it comes from. There is the dread from feeling powerless to change my environment or culture I am in, but I have found personally that living to bring joy in the small things helps with that. If the dread is from questioning my purpose if there even is one, it’s the same line of thinking for me as before.

I have no clue if that provides any value but I hope you find peace amidst what you’re going through.

toddalon OP ,

+1 Wisdom

SootyChimney ,

I suspect I’ve undiagnosed manic-depressive disorder, but either way I get heavy existential dread for 1-4 weeks straight, then reoccurring again in 1-3 months. I also get similar pressure from my industry. So I do feel you :(

s20 ,

Almost Daily. It’s a manifestation of my persistent melancholic depression. At some point, at least once almost every day, I’ll spend some time more or less paralyzed thinking about strangelets or meteor strikes or other shit that can wipe out the world and there’s nothing we can do about it. I’ll then go looking for more reasons to just not bother living if I can get off the couch.

pomodoro_longbreak ,
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Maybe once a week? I don’t worry about myself so much, but others down the line. Things look grim.

NorthWestWind ,
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