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A bit of therapy might help. Getting off of HN and other sources that cause you anxiety would be a good start.
by troughway 6y ago
A bit of therapy might help. Getting off of HN and other sources that cause you anxiety would be a good start.
- Der_Einzige 6y agoSuch a terrible response to someone venting out their economic anxieties.
- troughway 6y agoTerrible or not, it should be a stock response to these kinds of questions. It would not surprise me if HN turned out to have an abnormally high amount of people with GAD and/or undiagnosed anxieties, especially in the wake of COVID-19 which was just a shitshow of one doom porn article on another. So yes, go see a therapist if you're having trouble coping with the situation. You can thank me later for my "terrible response".
- noodlenotes 6y agoThe underlying assumption in your comment is that worrying is bad. Worrying is a great thing! When I get in the car, I worry I might have a car accident, so I wear a seat belt and pay attention to the road. Either you think OP's concerns aren't well-founded or you think their psychological way of dealing with worry is bad. Since you don't know OP and OP is questioning the former, why not address the question "should we be worried about the economy?" rather than tell OP to go to therapy?
- andy_ppp 6y agoI think you're suggesting that a great depression isn't the most likely outcome of the current crisis, to say that maybe my fears are unfounded because X, is fine, but to say I need psycological help because I see an outcome down the road that I think a lot of people see coming [1]. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/14/ray-dalio-on-coronavirus-effect-on-economy-society.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/14/ray-dalio-on-coronavirus-eff... To be fair that article gives a more rounded view - it might be bad for 5 years but we always recover. No need to worry about the huge US debt or a death spiral as things unravel!