How bout a prescription to stop doom scrolling. I feel like it'd take at least that to get my damn phone out of my hands.

HR also told me after I got diagnosed with stress due to work. Then made a follow up meeting to see what I was doing on my spare time to reduce my stress.

Job searching, that's what I was doing.

It's more like whatever is gonna happen is gonna happen regardless of how you feel about it so you can stress or you can chill and whatever is gonna be is gonna be regardless.

My doctor said, go for a walk and get away from her.

I don't think they mean "stop surviving". They mean, if something extra would normally be extra stressful, like going to a friend's wedding or hosting in laws for a week, tell them no. Or even just tell your boss "no" now and then. Say you can't get that done in a week, refuse an unreasonable request here and there.

If you already are doing the bare minimum and still suffering stress... Wtf? Most people doing the bare minimum aren't that stressed. The point is, you probably don't know how to avoid stress, and saying no alone became stressful. You need to learn to avoid it.

People who let stress overtake their physical health have come into positions where they literally can't conceive of the idea of "avoiding stress". They've lived and breathed it. That's the fucking problem, and your doctor isn't going to fix that with a pill. You need to change how you live.

You can easily avoid stress

They say that so they don't have to figure out what's actually wrong with you in the corporate-designated 15 minute appointment

Who wants to be decorative anyway?

I was too far into lemmy/scrolling, but not like any TikTok/facebook/etc. I think I just got dopamine burnout. One o got antidepressants, it was so much better for my mental health.

I'm not usually saying it to the patient, I'm saying it to their family. On occasion I will tell the patient in the sense of "you shouldn't feel bad for telling your family to fuck off respect your boundaries, you deserve to take care of yourself."

I mean... You can. Just not for longer than 3 days or so before you die from dehydration. But hey! If you die, you no longer experience stress. 🤷‍♂️

You can though. Leaving malevolent leftism behind can be a great first step to alleviate stress. You can still keep the good parts, the ones that are about making things better. Just drop the ones that make you hate everything. That's how Mamdani does it.

That shit is just an energy vampire that does nothing to improve the world, it just makes you miserable.