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  • Failing an exam you didn't study for us not a failure of character. It's not your fault, and it is not worth valuing higher than your life.

    Depression is telling you that you put too much weight on yourself. Do your best and that is already 100% of what you can give right now, and that is OK.

  • It's a living
  • The best time to start was 7 days ago, the second best time to start is now.

    I struggle with this as well. If the step is too big I get overwhelmed and procrastinate the task untll panic sets in and fuels me with adrenaline.

    Take a small step towards it without the intention to finish. Put the book out then do something else. Have the intention of just reading for 5 minutes then stop. Allow yourself to be satisfied in taking a step towards the big task.

  • Throw the gates wide open
  • Always being told you are wrong growing up puts pressure on masking to always try to be right and gives an all-or-nothing thinking.

    It is OK to not be perfect. It is something I have recently accepted about myself, and hope others can as well. 🩷

  • Have you tried not having a smashed hand?
  • The irony if being stuck because of yourself isn't bad, he just worded it badly.

    It's easy to interpret his message as negative because of depression, which is doubly ironic given the context of this conversation.

  • Throw the gates wide open

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21982615

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    Have you tried not having a smashed hand?
  • That's what he is saying in a bad way. The people in the comic are technically right, but since you think you deserve the punishment, you are stuck. If you manage to get away from that negative thinking, you've done the biggest part of getting out of depression, and from there it is easier to do the rest without the destructive self esteem.

    He should've used more words.

  • Honey
  • I agree with your arguments. We're on the same side of all of this.

    I disagree on having to remove one if both are bad. It would be like the trolley problem. 10 people suffer repeatedly indefinitely vs infinitely many suffering eventually. Moving all use to sugar cane will be worse for the environment than spreading some honey and some sugar cane. See my previous monocultulturalism point.

    Personally I think honey vs sugar cane is equal, so for me the choice is bad either way. I don't know which is worse, I try to use less, but what I use I feel is ambivalent, so I use both.

  • Honey
  • I am not vegan, but simply trying to understand how honey is bad, but as you say "unavoidable collateral damage of agriculture" or not.

    There are many ways agriculture could be less harm, less pesticides, less monotone growing practices, more spread out growing. We do not have to accept these practices to not starve.

    I don't think honey collecting is worse than agriculture (even of direct plants for human consumption), so I don't think vegans should discount honey.

  • Honey
  • Do you avoid all sugar products, or just honey?

    Sugar growing also kills animals. You cannot avoid all harm, so why discount honey for the harm you know, but not discounting harm from growing sugar?

    Reducing harm, sure, but it seems selective to discount honey for small amount of harm, when other things you (assumed) eat do equal (potentially unknown to you) harm.

    Do you need to know every process of growing/transporting something to eat it? Or does you list of edible products shrink as you learn every new form of harm?

  • Honey
  • (Strawman)

    Killing a few bees when collecting honey

    Vs

    Killing a lot of insects and rodents when plowing/tilling land to grow sugarcane/corn(sirup).

    Why discount one but not the other if they are equal?

  • “Clearing Homeless Encampments” is a Horrific Euphemism for Actively Oppressing the Poor
  • You both agree on the problem, it's just big and encompasses all both of you said. Using the term "unhoused people" just shifts the narrative to "we just need to put them in houses", be that new government funded housing projects, or changing regulations to dissalow empty houses, or stopping short term rental from eating central houses in cities.

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