2022 and My Mental State
May. 3rd, 2022 07:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unspeakablehorrorAnd so 2022 continues to hurtle ahead disastrously. This is also a year of many bad things happening, much like prior years. And while we can always find plenty of terrible things happening in the world, it does seem that there are Bad Times and Less Bad Times and we are currently very much in the former and not so much the latter. Not a scientific study or anything, but it just seems that way to me.
Weirdly this hasn't remotely been a pschological nadir for me (at least not yet), though I'd be a lot happier if the world wasn't such a mess. My psychological state is of course strongly affected by what's happening in my personal life, and the worst of that was several years back, with some other similarly bad states a few other times in my life. I do of course have worries about my personal life at present and those could intensify depending on what happens, or something unexpected could cause me problems, but that hasn't happened yet.
I do have a lot of concern for the wider world around me, though. It's one reason I focus on my mental health, besides just not wanting to feel awful (very motivating in itself), but also because it's hard, and sometimes impossible, to help others if one's own mental state gets too bad.
Weirdly this hasn't remotely been a pschological nadir for me (at least not yet), though I'd be a lot happier if the world wasn't such a mess. My psychological state is of course strongly affected by what's happening in my personal life, and the worst of that was several years back, with some other similarly bad states a few other times in my life. I do of course have worries about my personal life at present and those could intensify depending on what happens, or something unexpected could cause me problems, but that hasn't happened yet.
I do have a lot of concern for the wider world around me, though. It's one reason I focus on my mental health, besides just not wanting to feel awful (very motivating in itself), but also because it's hard, and sometimes impossible, to help others if one's own mental state gets too bad.