I cope by attaching my emotional state to the Denver Nuggets, who I have absolutely no control over and who take me on a gut-wrenching journey of euphoria and depression.
I literally don’t know a single adult person who doesn’t find modern life periodically exhausting. The onslaught of screaming voices vying for your attention on social, the forcible interface with bad tech (hello call bots and website AI assistants), the demands to adapt or die (maybe literally in some cases because you’ll get fired if you don’t and lose your health insurance), the lack of basic social decency in public spaces (I’m guilty of this too). I could go on. I’m not a Luddite, but some days I’m just overwhelmed by all the demands made on my processing skills. How do YOU cope? LMK.