

I’m not a doctor.
This still sounds like depression. It’s a depression I’m familiar with. It doesn’t feel as heavy. Life doesn’t lack color. It just doesn’t seem any part is as satisfying as it ought to be.
My go-to tactic is to give myself some space to process and then go do free low-stakes things outside the norm. Go to a museum. Walk around a mall. Find the schedule for a local sports league and go watch a game. Visit a local library and see what you can volunteer to help with.
Entertainment isn’t enough. We need connection with the world outside of ourselves. Finding ways to engage satisfying that need that aren’t taxing is a good first step.


This assigns too much legitimacy to the position. The working class are not capitalists because we have no capital with which to commit legal theft through property law or pay thugs to enforce those laws with violence.
The working class under capitalism are beholden to systems they often do not understand, cannot exercise agency within, and are actively stymied from prospering under.
Capitalism dehumanizes even those who support it. Those who support it are conditioned to reflexively demonize alternative systems. To rise above this culturally ingrained propaganda and advocate for alternatives requires seeing capitalism for what it is.
Alternative systems are to them what the bogeyman is to children.